@jerry Easiest way to see engagement here is to engage, I.e. respond to other peoples stuff, rather than post stuff and expect people to respond to it, especially if your follower count is low. I understand why this individual feels this way, but I learned that engagement here just works differently than a place like Reddit. Respond to people to create organic conversation, be genuine, use hashtags, put effort in for a few months not days or weeks, creating a network here requires some investment but pays off imo. Some people want more native functionality to boost engagement in their social platform and as it stands now, Mastodon doesn’t provide this, so getting started requires a bit of effort to get momentum. It’s not for everyone. I’ve posted (what I felt to be) really interesting things or questions to no response. Other times, I get lots of feedback. Sometimes just random based on the day. Hopefully more people come to appreciate this and give Mastodon more time to grow on them moving forward.
@shellsharks@jerry my HS driving instructor had a word for when you got off the highway, and back on normal roads you felt like you should go much faster.
that word was Velocitized.
It seems to me that stepping off of Twiffle or the other silo auto filling feeds could be described similarky
@pixelpusher220@shellsharks I like that analogy, and I am well familiar with the concept of velocitized, and yes, it has led to several speeding tickets in my nearly 40 years of driving
@rakkhi I think it depends on who you ask. I do personally agree, but I think I am in the minority. There are some nascent projects that implement algorithmic feeds, but I am skeptical they’ll see the light of day
Maybe we need to fiddle with the compulsion loop timing.
My content just isn't getting the engagement I need for my sponsors.
Honest take:
Might be a joke... hard to tell where people are coming from often and critique can easily come out sideways. It's easy to be dismissive, but it also seems to be that this instance is about quality over quantity. If people quietly read what I say and don't feel the need to engage; I don't need them to engage. I get all sorts of great information and passionate intelligent statements and discussion here. Not pegged to 11, but much much better than other social media feeds and even news feeds.
It's hard for me to complain given the landscape. Thanks for hosting this and I hope it continues to improve in real tangible ways.
I try my best. It's easy to shoot off something that you read after and go- well that was kind of shitty, and I probably get better about it every day. There is likely a lot of programming from traditional social media that needs to be worked out.
I hope the genuine desire is enough to make it happen. The social game is a very scary engineering problem. I think we have seen that it can go incredibly sideways.
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