My response rates for polls on Twitter were 1-2%.
On Mastodon, it's 15-20%.
Twitter and Facebook throttle our natural engagement with our friends and family and colleagues.
They do it so brands will buy ads to reach people who already follow them.
I didn't realise how pronounced the effect is.
I'm angry.
For years, my connection with the people I care about has been diminished, intentionally, to support a losing advertising scheme.
I want that time with my friends and family back.
On Mastodon, it's 15-20%.
Twitter and Facebook throttle our natural engagement with our friends and family and colleagues.
They do it so brands will buy ads to reach people who already follow them.
I didn't realise how pronounced the effect is.
I'm angry.
For years, my connection with the people I care about has been diminished, intentionally, to support a losing advertising scheme.
I want that time with my friends and family back.
Adam Dalliance
•Spread it around more!
William Heber Percy
•Evan Prodromou
•William Heber Percy
•John Allsopp
•Evan Prodromou
•Jon Udell
•Evan Prodromou
•Jon Udell
•moliver
•https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-performed-psychology-experiment-thousands-users-without-telling-them-256914
Facebook Performed a Psychology Experiment on Thousands of Users Without Telling Them
Zach Schonfeld (Newsweek)🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛
•Facebook is a huge scam.
I used to get reasonable engagement on my personal page, but now even that's down to one or two engagements if I have any article linked. The only thing that still gets a normal amount of engagement are photos and text posts. Even though I have over 2,000 friends, I've never gotten over a hundred reactions on any post.
My first week on Mastodon, I had something go viral with 5K engagements.
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•Jyoti Mishra
•Here, way higher interaction and way more informed answers.
James M.
•I'm trying to convince those I follow on FB to bring their writing here, but that won't work for long-form writers (e.g. Rebecca Solnit, Heather Cox Richardson, Rob Brezsny, etc.). I know there are pros and cons to longer max post lengths here, but is there a solution for them other than linking to blogs?
James M.
•Andrew
•Evan Prodromou
•Andrés
•@cinebox
bazkie bumpercar | unfluencer
•I'm so happy we got Mastodon now 😀
Patty Bluebird 🦩
•This place isn't perfect but I feel safer and am interacting with more people. It's much more satisfying than worrying about my followers / followings matching up perfectly or how many Likes I got.
Glencoe
•Richservo :verified:
•James Russell
•Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈
•Adiiantryx :verified:
•Jim
•Evan Prodromou
•sammiejoe
•Andrew Mayers
•It also might be that your followers skewed towards those who used 3rd party clients. I almost never voted in polls because no 3rd party clients supported them. Here it’s easy to vote from any client.
Sinistar7510
•Unabogie has voted Kamala!
•Barry Schwartz 🫖
•It was ad free and algorithm free. But it still sucked.
(It sucked, IMO, because it was Jack Dorsey trying to remake people in his shallow, misguided image, rather than just provide a ding dang service.)
Mark Tisdale - Artist
•Diane
•It takes a lot of alt text to describe so here's the post with the alt text.
https://octodon.social/@alienghic/109264052838268873
Diane 🕵 (@alienghic@octodon.social)
the OctodonJeff Sharpe
•Johannes Ernst
•dnklgr
•lord pthenq1
•Michael Cook
•It would be so interesting to know what would (or would have) happened to Twitter’s culture without the algorithm.
Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)
•Bill Plein🌶
•Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data.
•Jason Brooks :fedora:
•Swearwoolf
•Laurie Mercer
•podCast411
•Evan Prodromou
•podCast411
•Evan Prodromou
•Jake in the desert
•Brett :cheers:
•In short - enjoy the platform - but consider supporting the admins! The quickest way for this to go away is for servers to disappear!
#mastoadmin #twittermigration #support
saurabh shandilya
•Tomáš Znamenáček
•Giovanni Idili
•LivePaola
•Fubarrockchick
•TransitBiker
•rood
•xChaos
•Leaving too competitive markets is natural. People motivated by feedback itself will move to less competitive places like this. Huge markets tend to choose only content with some added value. (And I must admit, that my Twitter content was not really so much extraordinary...)
Paolo Amoroso
•Christian Grobmeier
•Martino
•Toni Aittoniemi
•https://gimulnaut-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2022/05/19/why-simply-being-against-censorship-is-the-not-the-strongest-argument-for-defending-freedom-of-speech-on-social-media/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Why simply ‘being against censorship’ is the not the strongest argument for defending freedom of speech on social media
Gimulnauttinewsorpigal
•Lars Rosenquist
•Keith Hoodlet :verified: :donor:
•Joseph Lord
•1) I had more traffic there just because I’d built up a big number of people to follow, so for now I’m engaging with a higher percentage of things I see.
2) I was using Tweetbot and had to click through to the poll in the main Twitter app to vote which was a deterrent so I engaged in less polls than I would have if it was just two clicks.
Lucas H. 🇪🇺🇺🇦
•Meow
•Gilles CRUCHON
•With Mastodon, no algorithm… so it's good way to reduce your addiction and finally get free (time).
Stephanie 🎀
•Caleb Faruki
•Datarainbow Privacy Assistant✅
•Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴
•Ben Sizer
•Gone 2 Threads
•It's that we get to choose our associations and we have no overlord manipulating our feed for profit.
Simon 🪗
•I'm more inclined to interact on here, too, less likely to get snark back, and I only just realise now how important that is to me.
Violette Vixen
•mara
•fathermucker
•Bruce Mirken
•Truthfinder1234
•~# sudohuman
•Then you put out a new song/EP/album and announce it and you get one or two thumbs up out of 500 followers and then Facebook offers "hey wanna boost your post? We have a complex scheme where basically you say how much you are willing to spend and then we'll decide how many of the people who've already said they want to find out when you've got something new will actually find out!"
Literally extorting you for access to your own followers.
I can't wait for it to die so we can go back to having our own webpages again.
Alex Galt 🧄
•Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
•Add the fact that they permit bots to exist, youʼre figuratively burning good money by dealing with them.
You have every right to be angry.
Maria Langer VOTED | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️
•No relief on Facebook, though.
Evan Prodromou
•Maria Langer VOTED | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️
•In the meantime, it'll keep you from seeing the crap the algorithm throws at you.
I'm not defending the birdsite. I'm just pointing out that unlike Facebook, you do have some control over what YOU see.
Anne-Marie de Jong
•And when, overnight?
Everything has a price.
On the so called ‘free’ social media you don’t pay with your time, looking at adds, you pay with you data. Thy rake in wat ever they can lay there hands on.
Evan Prodromou
•I didn't have an unmodified social network to compare against, so I didn't know to what extent algorithmic feed manipulation was interfering in my social life.
I thought a 10x difference was pretty striking.
Anne-Marie de Jong
•I’ve seen your bio.
Evan Prodromou
•Neonriser
•Kathe O'Reilly
•