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Attached: 2 images The difference between a closed, algorithmically-curated silo like Twitter and the fediverse. Same post. Twitter: ~43K “followers”, 8 boosts, 58 likes Fediverse: ~8.43K followers, 57 boosts, 106 likes Your thousands of “followers” on Twitter mean nothing because the algorithm (i.e., Twitter, Inc.) decides who gets to hear you. #fediverse

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This is true, but it’s not the quantity of engagement that matters, it’s the quality. Also the fediverse isn’t necessarily intrinsically better than a hellish corporate site, but it’s operated more democratically which tends (not always) to lead to better quality overall.

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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”. It is a common, informal name for a federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages.

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