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

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@carnage4life Like, your post is virtually an ad for Mastodon.

[bkim@mastodon.social]

@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".

[carnage4life@mas.to]

@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.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@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.

[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.