I find it astonishing how much more direct things are on Mastodon/Fediverse compared to Twitter/X, there's no feeling of algorithms that may or may not decide to make your post visible to others, it's just you and the other people on the internet and if you post a banger it'll just take off.
I rarely had any 'hit tweets' on twitter, but on Mastodon I feel like it happens at least once a month, although maybe it's just subjective. feels like I've much more active followers on here than on twit/x
@anthropy Yeah, Mastodon gives this feeling of engagement. I receive significantly more interactions with my posts, having just a bit over twenty followers, than I did on Twitter, having 400. Maybe being on an instance dedicated to the topic I mostly toot about helps too.
@anthropy when I 1st joined, someone prominent on my instance was leaving and wrote a long post abt inherent flaws & limits in soc media
One was: encouraging more followers/ees than Dunbar's Number, meaning dehumanization is "inevitable" and/or "optimal"
But the lack of an algorithm (and any prev soc media on my part) means I must seek out others. This makes me functionally avoid that, as I focus on a smaller number of better connections and diff interest levels
@anthropy As someone who has only started posting in the last month or so, I've definitely gotten a lot more traction and interaction on here than on Twitter. Think the changes to the algorithm heavily promoting Blue subscribers might have something to do with it.
Since the algorithm changes on Twitter to being verified users only, engagement has gone down significantly. New followers on Twitter have completely stagnated to nothing since those changes.
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