WelshPixie (dawel a dirgel) (@welshpixie@mastodon.art)
mastodon.artYou want to know the value of Mastodon over Insta? Posted this on Instagram to the 15k followers I have there, properly tagged. 29 likes, no comments.
Masto? So much engagement. So much fun discussion. So much more community.
Numbers don’t mean squat if you don’t have the follow through. I’ve never sold a single piece of art through Insta. People on Insta like passively browsing through images and tapping the heart. For an artist, it’s a useless audience.
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.
Getting started on Fediverse;
- What is the fediverse?
- Fediverse Platforms
- Mass-follow People by Interest
- How to run your own community
For devs;
- 0 users online
- 22 users / day
- 1 user / week
- 1 user / month
- 28 users / 6 months
- 14 subscribers
- 194 Posts
- 492 Comments
- Modlog
This is really comforting - especially as I’m a self-employed freelancer who has continually left traditional social media sites and moved more and more onto the Fediverse!
The thing that most content creators don’t get, and fall victim to, is that those platforms are created with the sole purpose of being the place where people go for content. This way, the platform gets a piece of not only any profit from the content which is successful, but also gets mindshare, and cachet from even failure to find content. That “almost what I wanted but not quite” feeling gets associated. So people keep coming back to the failure platform, hoping that one day the content they want will be there.
IG is so full of “influencers”. Eye roll. I’m happy you found a better place. Also, maybe an Etsy store? I’m considering it for selling crafts.
There is a reason, why I block this person who wrote it. She allows herself to be influenced by hate speech, tries to force her opinion on others, and abuses her power of an entire instance to lock someone out instance-wide because one person pushes Twitter’s lies on her.
This person is not trustworthy because she lashes out with her ignorance and arrogance and thinks she can get away with anything.
She can’t even follow her own instance rules, where it is written that even microaggressions are not allowed, but she and several members of her instance make active use of #Fediblock, in which they offend the denounced persons now and then. In addition, she carries information that people have emailed her into her public timeline and uses it to further incite hatred.
I don’t really like her either (she more or less sided with white nationalist groups in the recent uprising in South Africa because the indigenous protestors were ‘too violent’), but as a queer person who’s been the target of a hate campaign, the fediblock canary is kind of indispensible.