<![CDATA[Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps]]>Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps

• Threads (38K →40K): People love the shitposts and leave insightful comments on AI.

• Bluesky (47K → 60K): People love the anti-Trump posts.

• Mastodon (18K 📉😞 People hate AI and I’m steadily losing followers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/1cc75653-c97c-4f64-98b8-19b8e66b0db2/three-month-check-in-on-follower-counts-after-posting-the-same-content-on-all-3-appsRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 20:23:35 GMTSun, 05 Apr 2026 11:58:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:32:37 GMT]]>@dalias @carnage4life there’s something interesting to me about your account. It comes across to me almost like a bot account. Limited interaction and high posting rate, quite declaratory. That you’re posting the same content across platforms probably explains this.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Wifiwits/statuses/116352821348023223https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Wifiwits/statuses/116352821348023223Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:32:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:27:14 GMT]]>@heathborders @sepdroid That’s what I meant. Least engagement overall on Mastodon with the engagement that does occur being mostly on tech topics

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352564256793569https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352564256793569Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:27:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:16:47 GMT]]>@sepdroid @carnage4life I think he means least engagement overall. Of that little engagement, tech topics get most engagement

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/heathborders/statuses/116352523142113305https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/heathborders/statuses/116352523142113305Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:16:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:13:58 GMT]]>@heathborders @carnage4life We are least engagement on tech topics? What?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://androiddev.social/users/sepdroid/statuses/116352512038431346https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://androiddev.social/users/sepdroid/statuses/116352512038431346Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:13:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:11:34 GMT]]>@carnage4life thanks for the comparison. I've been completely blind to threads. I'm legit surprised it's got so many active users

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/heathborders/statuses/116352502599434080https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/heathborders/statuses/116352502599434080Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:11:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:47:46 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352409026900148https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352409026900148Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:47:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:40:17 GMT]]>@carnage4life we like you!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.nozbe.com/users/michael/statuses/116352379605153749https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.nozbe.com/users/michael/statuses/116352379605153749Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:40:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:38:30 GMT]]>@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?)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://socel.net/users/MarkT123/statuses/116352372614338071https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://socel.net/users/MarkT123/statuses/116352372614338071Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:38:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:27:38 GMT]]>@carnage4life 😅 you have the best posts on here man. I don’t want to go to another service… but maybe I should.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AustinTooley/statuses/116352329905303603https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AustinTooley/statuses/116352329905303603Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:27:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:24:54 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freiburg.social/users/flq/statuses/116352319139306095https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freiburg.social/users/flq/statuses/116352319139306095Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:24:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:24:53 GMT]]>@carnage4life

Fair enough

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gotofritz/statuses/116352319079574635https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gotofritz/statuses/116352319079574635Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:24:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:22:24 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352309317621850https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352309317621850Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:22:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:20:33 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/PizzaDemon/statuses/116352302019765920https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/PizzaDemon/statuses/116352302019765920Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:20:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:18:25 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gotofritz/statuses/116352293647021811https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/gotofritz/statuses/116352293647021811Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:18:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:16:49 GMT]]>@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...)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/DaveMinor/statuses/116352287315291968https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/DaveMinor/statuses/116352287315291968Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:16:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:16:24 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aiono/statuses/116352285693469520https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/aiono/statuses/116352285693469520Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:16:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:48:43 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmovs/statuses/116352176835880254https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jmovs/statuses/116352176835880254Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:48:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:32:32 GMT]]>@carnage4life appreciate the presence here.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116352113226008823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/kevbob/statuses/116352113226008823Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:32:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:21:46 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352070907666923https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352070907666923Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:21:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:21:37 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://uncontrollablegas.com/users/Mutesplash/statuses/116352070301489974https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://uncontrollablegas.com/users/Mutesplash/statuses/116352070301489974Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:21:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:17:45 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352055098003719https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352055098003719Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:17:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:15:00 GMT]]>@carnage4life What I'm saying is that you seem to be comparing how much people uncritically love the stuff you post.

It's weird that you see Mastodon as a "filter bubble" but don't see Bluesky as a filter bubble of fawning tech fans and mainstream politics wonks. They are not remotely representative of the general public.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116352044296051287https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116352044296051287Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:15:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:11:44 GMT]]>@dalias There are different communities across the internet with different cultures & perspectives.

It’s easy to live in a filter bubble and have a myopic view of the world.

My post is an observation of my experience posting literally the same content on different platforms and seeing very different reactions from people.

People on Mastodon are a self selected group of curmudgeonly tech folks who have strong views when it comes to controlling software they use. It’s unsurprising they hate AI.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352031431543939https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/carnage4life/statuses/116352031431543939Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:11:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:07:40 GMT]]>@carnage4life I dislike AI but need to keep learning about it. I look forward to your posts, because they lack that FOMO veneer so prevalent on LinkedIn.

Also, SO many people become fanboys it's annoying. Instead of saying "we can implement that", like a normal coder, they say "we can ask claudey to do that".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bkim/statuses/116352015456410609https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bkim/statuses/116352015456410609Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:07:40 GMT