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Use mastodon and the fediverse
Dude, not trying to throw shade at Mastodon, but where on Lemmy I get tons of interaction, on Pixelfed and Loops I get a solid amount and on Bluesky I get plenty in comments and some on my own posts...
I have had ZERO ANYTHING on Mastodon, and the content I post is more or less the same as the others. The app looks sleek and upload quality is better than the others, but it feels like being shadowbanned on Meta... Photos, memes, text, political, personal, you name it, nothing.
I make a point to use each of these apps once a day. No one is reciprocating anything on Mastodon. Again, it feels like being shadowbanned. I honestly hate it at this point. I'm trying to engage with those people and they're giving me nothing.
Maybe it's literally a technical issue, no joke. Or maybe I'm like the old lady in the "If my phone isn't broken then why don't my relatives call me?" story
EDIT: I'm surprised to hear I'm not alone. I thought my little rant would get downvoted. Well, dang! We need to fix Mastodon then!
Sounds like there aren't as many users on mastodon as you would like. Next time you see a public figure using only bluesky and not the fedevirse make sure to call them out.
Will do. If I can find the time to be on 5 different platforms, they can too. I've been itching to log into the ol'gram (Instagram, that is) and nudge some of my favorite indie bands towards joining fediverse
I don't use Mastodon but sometimes I stumble upon other users on Mastodon. The vast majority of times, they scream out into the void. Thousands of posts, zero interaction.
I have the opposite experience. I can post the same thing on both bs and mastodon and got lots of replies on mastodon and crickets on bs.
Damn... 😐
For me it's not as bad as you described, people reply if i ask something or comment but i don't know how to find the content and the people that I'd like to follow. I do follow some accounts that I like but still my feed feels dead :( I think Lemmy is easier because it's a "subject/interest first" place whereas mastodon (or twitter) is "people first" place. I was never a twitter fan either so I actually don't quite know what to expect from it neither.
I still keep visiting Mastodon after I get angry to Instagram though, which happens quite often (I know mastodon is a twitter alt and we have pixelfed for ig)
Making your posts available for search on Mastodon is opt-in through the use of hashtags. That makes it very difficult to find people to follow.
That's true about Lemmy. It's been a good replacement for both Reddit and Facebook groups, though smaller.
I'm the same, Mastodon is good for some neiche topics. But for following news etc, it's a no go.
"But b'uesky integrated!!!!!!"