Dare Obasanjo
Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps
• Threads (38K →40K): People love the shitposts and leave insightful comments on AI.
• Bluesky (47K → 60K): People love the anti-Trump posts.
• Mastodon (18K 📉): People hate AI and I’m steadily losing followers.
Rich Felker
@carnage4life Is your goal having sycophants or engaging with people with heart and actual expertise on the topics? 🤔
Rich Felker
@carnage4life Like, your post is virtually an ad for Mastodon. 🤣
Dare Obasanjo
@dalias There are different communities across the internet with different cultures & perspectives.
It’s easy to live in a filter bubble and have a myopic view of the world.
My post is an observation of my experience posting literally the same content on different platforms and seeing very different reactions from people.
People on Mastodon are a self selected group of curmudgeonly tech folks who have strong views when it comes to controlling software they use. It’s unsurprising they hate AI.
Rich Felker
@carnage4life What I'm saying is that you seem to be comparing how much people uncritically love the stuff you post.
MattChippytea
@carnage4life @dalias that’s completely understandable. Engagement is a strange thing, and it makes sense you would focus where you get the most.
Rich Felker
@Wifiwits @carnage4life It makes sense, but it's probably part of why he doesn't get much interest here. Most folks here are here for people who engage back with them, not for people who talk at them.
MattChippytea
@dalias @carnage4life there’s something interesting to me about your account. It comes across to me almost like a bot account. Limited interaction and high posting rate, quite declaratory. That you’re posting the same content across platforms probably explains this.
Dare Obasanjo
@Wifiwits @dalias I don’t have the bandwidth to reply to 50-100 comments a day across platforms especially during the week.
I’m engaging more than usual today because it’s a Sunday morning and not a work day.
As it stands I mostly post in batches during the hour or so in the mornings and at night dedicated to reading tech news. I may post during my lunch break on weekdays but I definitely don’t have time to reply to comments in that time window.
Dare Obasanjo
@dalias That’s quite a bit of projection. I’m following up on a post from three months ago which set the context and also trying to fit the content into 300 characters so it could fit on Bluesky, since I posted the same thing on all 3 apps.
Rich Felker
@openrisk @Wifiwits @carnage4life There's a reason they renamed social networking to social media. 🤮
Open Risk
@dalias @Wifiwits @carnage4life
imho we don't adequately label social networks according to whether they promote publisher/follower patterns or reciprocal/discussion patterns
Journos, businesses, institutions etc. first want to push things out to as many as possible, then to see "mass engagement" (likes and memes) etc. that doesnt require them costly (and risky) replies
The underlying protocols and UI may support both patterns (at the same time!) but its a totally different experience.
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