After about twelve hours, the same post had received more than 300 shares and likes on Mastodon, while it had only been shared three times and liked four times on BlueSky.

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@everton137 the metrics are part of the problem.

The web 2.0 era metrics are ubiquitous, and quantitative. And, on centralized platforms, are gamed at first by people run bots, now by ai bots.

And algorithms.

I don't know how bluesky curates content.
On mastodon, I do my own curation and dip in the fediverse often.

Because I am interested in quality, not quantity.

That is a human thing. Because something is popular does not mean it is right or good.

[gf493d@theforkiverse.com]

@everton137 The fun police make #mastodon pretty much #unusable for most plp. Commenting on anything can soon become a micro #aggregation or insert (offence taken). Nothing gains mass adoption under those circumstances. #commenting become pointless. #ironic #HurtyMcFeelz

[carinemissiaen@mastodon-belgium.be]

@_elena @ivory @everton137

I'm still using Google. I am used to it. Ant my laptop has Windows. Seldom using a celphone. Only when I don't have a pc in reach.

[sibshops@mastodon.online]

@everton137 There are some topics which seem to do super well on Mastodon and not so much on BlueSky.

AI is another topic that does well on mastodon, but not so much on other social media.

[rentalassistance434654@mstdn.party]

@everton137 https://findyourhouse.godaddysites.com/

[vosje62@mastodon.nl]

@everton137 @McWabbit and on my timeline Mastodon is growing pretty steady.
For years I use the global number of notifications/day as indicator.
Where early 2025 it was around 100 on a good day, later it was 100 on average and begin 2026 many days 130-150.

(Numbers only say much about the posts itself. It is the interaction on the post that count and have a wide range per post.)

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@everton137 This is probably because BlueSky is fascist, and it would be hypocritical of its users to repost that message.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@everton137 Algorithms are just more obfuscated tools of control, very simple.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@CarineMissiaen @ivory @everton137 thanks! in that case Phanpy is phenomenal, as it has cross-platform compatibility. Give it a try (especially the catch up feature)

[dl2jml@mastodon.radio]

@everton137 Marketing likes classical social media, because it serves statistics on engagement: how many people saw your post, how much time they spent, etc... You have not seen these statistics because you need an advertiser's account.
It is something they can give to their bosses to show that they worked hard.
Mastodon does not offer that. Marketing will not use it.
Which is a good thing.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@everton137 most of those other people, suck.

[mywoolymastadon@toot.community]

@benroyce @engel @everton137

From what I see the Fediverse is what you want to make of it. You curate your own time line, letting some in and others out. I don't see why you can't keep the Fediverse the way you like it as long as you're willing to stay vigilant and/or switch instances when it's necessary.

It can remain a small neighborhood for you while others discover it.

Am I wrong on this point?

[luca@sironi.xyz]

@CarineMissiaen @everton137

hello Carine,
at first sight, you seem to have got fediverse perfectly right, you are here, speaking with people from different instances.

What you consider less intuitive ?

If I can give just a suggestion, without an algorithmic feed bringing you pre cooked content, you have to try to follow much more people, hashtag, lemmy forum compared to what you were used to in the ruined social

[john@vyrse.social]

@MyWoolyMastadon @benroyce @engel @everton137

I don't think you're wrong: like life, the fediverse gives you back what you put into it.

Follow nobody, get nothing.
Spend a little time building you follow lists?
Value and fun ensue.

[sassinake@mastodon.social]

@everton137

I go both ways, so I went ahead and boosted you on BS.

there's no algorithm, but a hell of a lot of blocklists and starter packs now, so maybe that played a role.

anyway - I hope such 'helpers' don't come here, and cripple my ability to 'curate my own feed'.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137

not only are you not wrong, you reveal the idiocy of this "i don't want the fediverse to grow" foolishness

as you say, you simply make of the fediverse what you want. it's size elsewhere or not on some other servers has zero bearing on your experience

so people who "want to keep the fediverse small" are doing nothing but stating an absurdity at best. they aren't engaged coherently

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@benroyce
It can easily stay small. If someone joins a small instance and only looks at the feed of people they follow, voila - small Fedi.

@MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@xinit @MyWoolyMastadon @engel @everton137

exactly

the whole topic is a nontopic

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@everton137 I have no faith that there is fair content surfacing in an ecosystem where all the following factors are true:
A. Algorithmic feeds
B. VC / Advertising based funding
C. Platforming and verifying fascists

A + B + C = Content Supression. Every time. There's incentive to squelch who fascists dont like.

Posting in for profit spaces who accept the money and/or social brand reach of fascists is akin to trying to get the word out by yelling while someone covers your face with a pillow. Yelling in a pillow can be cathardic, but no one else is gonna hear.

[collette@mastodon.social]

@Sassinake “there’s no algorithm” is just hard to believe about bluesky. Maybe theres not Meta’s algorithm, but something else chooses what is fed and when - the ‘discover’ tab when not logged in, for example..