BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
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Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
As someone with a large
following, do you have any recommendations for dealing with notifications?I've heard several times that creators that seem to be pretty good have trouble dealing with all the replies on Mastodon, specifically.
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Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
(I favourited and boosted this, but given the content of the post, I feel like that could be interpreted as a passive-aggressive attack. It isn't meant to be, I have nothing of value to add to this, but I completely agree with the sentiment expressed.)
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Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
Also, probably very few people will find this interesting, but the latest campaign in not another D&D podcast lampoons this kind of social media influencer with a Social Media Warlock (derives her power from her social media following.)
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@futurebird @meganmariehart 100%, getting many likes is in some sense satisfying, but one engaged reply is gratifying.
@sarble +1
i have 14 followers on masto and have had more engaging interactions here than ten years of instagram could give me
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@meganmariehart Are you aware of https://stootistics.web.app/ ?
@sonjaschuh01 Thank you so much! I’ll give this to someone who’s good with math and computers. I have a hunch it could be really helpful. (I’m terrible at math. Did you know dancers are better at math than musicians? I heard them count to eight!)
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@mdione My idea was to test the potential reach of a post without hashtags, basically just for the sake of discussion. After all, it's not just about finding an existing audience, but also about building one. (There are some bots that post trending tags, I figure it should be possbile to tweak one of them to show hashtags used in connection to a specific topic?)
Thank you!@meganmariehart dont boosts also go against the 'i want to test the default reach of posts?'
boosting a post means it will show up in someones timeline, where it wouldnt have shown up in if not boosted
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@Irisfreundin Thank you, this might be helpful in addition. By the way, I got this message when I tried to view your initially hidden post: “Notifications from this account have been filtered because the account or its server has been limited by a moderator.” I thought you might want to know.
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I feel like I get more meaningful interaction (and perhaps even ticket sales!) from a Mastodon post about an upcoming show than from posts on other social media platforms. But a “feeling” dosen’t help when trying to convince people to join. Or to get active. My current theater @staatstheaterdarmstadt is on here since 2022 – zero posts! I would like them to get active or even set up their own instance. I think every theater should have its own instance! It can’t be more work than FB and IG.
5/7@meganmariehart when you say "theater", I think "backstage" and 'images", and then maybe pixelfed instance in the end, not mastodon?
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@meganmariehart Why do you use THE IMPERATIVE FORM IN UPPERCASE when you post something?
Do you know the word "please"?
Do you have to SHOUT orders to strangers when you conduct an experiment?
@nakedhombre I read that post as a satire of social media "broadcasters". You will see if you read the thread.
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BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
@meganmariehart seeing is overrated, how many people can feel a post without #
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BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
@meganmariehart
I often use em. But sometimes I don't often because I can't think of a suitable one for the post being composed. -
@mdione Yes, that makes sense. We didn’t start the experiments from new accounts, and since my experiment appeared in the trending feed, it has probably reached far more people than it should have! (But on the other hand, if I want to convince people and organizations to join the Fediverse, why not do so with a best-case scenario!
)@meganmariehart There's a technical difference in the #Trending feed:
#Posts trend if they are new and have many recent boosts.
#Tags trend if many people have used them recently. They don’t have to be new.
(And the admins can moderate their trends, so it's also depending on the instance.More: https://fedi.tips/where-are-the-trending-posts-and-hashtags-on-mastodon/
and the admins: https://fedi.tips/how-do-admins-moderate-trends-on-their-mastodon-server/ -
BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
@meganmariehart the underlying protocol of Fediverse is not dependent on any tags. strictly saying it does not have tags at all. it works like email and delivery depends on user addresses, like username+servername. if a connected user reposts or comments some post in Fediverse, there's a chance that his followers get a copy of the original post too, so posts spread across the different servers on Fediverse.
some platforms (like Mastodon) allow subscription to tags and some filtering on tags. others do not offer that features. but tags often may be used in seatch engines on servers and people may sort out messages with tags for easier search. -
@meganmariehart Swear to god, hashtags mostly just annoy me. I follow people. They boost people. I pick and choose from their boosteds.
@GeePawHill I discovered the most interesting people by subscribing to hashtags. I would never have found specialists for lichens by boosts of people only. It's great if you are interested in more nerdy issues.
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@meganmariehart I dislike hashtags, personally.
I preferred forums.
@Netraven @meganmariehart while I prefer forum too, I love hashtags as both a way to cross post and to filter or reject content.
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BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
@meganmariehart can’t find the thread
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BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
@meganmariehart I'm not sure what this is asking.
Am I seeing *this* post that I am replying to without hashtags? Yes. -
Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
I, too, like replies more than anything else. Though I often find I have nothing productive, useful, or fun to say. So the favorite button is just "i liked that" and the boost is "my friends will like it too".
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@meganmariehart
I think about “engagement” differently on Mastodon. Before the Elon-gation of Twitter I had more than 12k5 followers there (I left at that point!) Here I have fewer than a quarter of that number, but I feel far more engaged. People scrolling past one’s Tweets without even glancing at them counted as being ‘seen’ — a meaningless statistic!@KimSJ I feel the same way about engagement statistics, they’re useless to me! Mastodon is great and fun without them. However, I was thinking that maybe for someone who hasn’t made the jump yet, some numbers could be an incentive, just because they are so used to them.
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@futurebird @meganmariehart 100%, getting many likes is in some sense satisfying, but one engaged reply is gratifying.
Great way to put it! And I agree with both of you. Obviously it's a personal preference, but a like/favorite/boost can mean anything.
I'd rather know:
Did the person really like this? How much? What did they not like? How can I improve?
