Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps

[carnage4life@mas.to]

@dalias That’s quite a bit of projection. I’m following up on a post from three months ago which set the context and also trying to fit the content into 300 characters so it could fit on Bluesky, since I posted the same thing on all 3 apps.

[mutesplash@uncontrollablegas.com]

@carnage4life I don't like AI but you (mostly) don't try and mash the "inevitability" of it into reader's faces and post about specific use cases, so the posts are useful for calibration.

[carnage4life@mas.to]

@dalias Every social media app is a filter bubble. That’s how social media works.

It’s either a filter bubble based on who you chose to follow or what content is recommended to you by various For You algorithms.

My experience of the three: Mastodon is a left leaning curmudgeonly techie filter bubble. Bluesky is a left leaning political news junkie filter bubble. Threads is a left leaning “normie” filter bubble.

[kevbob@xoxo.zone]

@carnage4life appreciate the presence here.

[jmovs@mastodon.social]

@carnage4life I like your content but the fact that you never ever reply to a single post to anyone here makes me less eager to interact.

[aiono@mastodon.social]

@carnage4life I disagree with some of the things you say about AI but that's fine. We should talk with people who don't think exactly like us.

[daveminor@techhub.social]

@carnage4life You're just about the only person I follow whose posts I eagerly read. And "left leaning curmudgeonly techie filter bubble" strikes me as just about right. Good stuff. (Please don't drop mastodon...)

[gotofritz@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life

I enjoy your posts, particularly the ones on AI usage in the industry. I agree mastodon is rabidly (and idiotically) anti-AI, but I think the fact you don't interact with replies here could also play a part in you losing followers. People are very sensistive to that

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@carnage4life one of the reasons I follow you is because you're a knowledgeable rational AI advocate and I want some balance in my feed.

[carnage4life@mas.to]

@gotofritz My level of interaction is about the same on all 3 apps. I mostly like/star comments and rarely respond unless I feel I have something meaningful to add to what was said or triggered by the comment.

[gotofritz@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life

Fair enough

[flq@freiburg.social]

@carnage4life I am glad you’re also posting here, as I’m done with corporate social media. Yes, people are anti AI here, but I consider this a natural reaction to the crazy amounts of blue-pill in other bubbles.

[austintooley@mastodon.social]

@carnage4life you have the best posts on here man. I don’t want to go to another service… but maybe I should.

[markt123@socel.net]

@carnage4life Your profile still shows 18K followers, so I’m guessing the steady loss you report is a slow trickle of some kind? In contrast to growth elsewhere, that’s interesting and certainly a relative drag. I wonder if perhaps your follower count is proportional or related to growth of the user base itself on each platform? I get the sense that Mastodon only grows in occasional bursts, while the other two grow more steadily (maybe due to advertising?)

[michael@social.nozbe.com]

@carnage4life we like you!

[carnage4life@mas.to]

@MarkT123 I have 18,530 followers and started this morning at 18,534. I think I had about 18,600 a few months ago when I started noticing a steady loss of about 5 followers a day whenever I post about AI in a non-critical manner.

It’s not a huge decline but it stands in contrast to growth on other platforms from literally the exact same content.

[heathborders@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life thanks for the comparison. I've been completely blind to threads. I'm legit surprised it's got so many active users

[sepdroid@androiddev.social]

@heathborders @carnage4life We are least engagement on tech topics? What?

[heathborders@hachyderm.io]

@sepdroid @carnage4life I think he means least engagement overall. Of that little engagement, tech topics get most engagement

[carnage4life@mas.to]

@heathborders @sepdroid That’s what I meant. Least engagement overall on Mastodon with the engagement that does occur being mostly on tech topics