I'm trying to convince the last friends I have left on Facebook, X, Threads, or BlueSky to join the Fediverse. Some have tried but felt a sense of loneliness. Nowadays, many people are so used to doing what algorithms suggest that they can no longer make independent choices. My timeline here, on the other hand, is beautiful. I see what I want, I follow people who post what I like, and no one tells me what I should do. Freedom may come with a "cost," but whatever it is, it's worth the effort. Always. #Fediverse#Mastodon#SocialNetworks
@me Indeed, artists get the same support here with a tenth of their audience on Instagram because we choose the people we follow, we're responsible for this, so of course we're more committed as a support network – at least for artists, and maybe even more broadly.
@me And there's this slight difference that even though Mastodon does optimize for engagement (it's called “biopower” btw), it doesn't prevent its users from clicking on external links as much as capitalistic “social” media do, so we tend to connect at least slightly more directly to their online shops, they can add external links to posts anyway without having them being hidden by the algorithm.
I'm going out on a limb and say that the difference here is that significantly more people in proportion can click on external links without fearing to waste their time.
