Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps
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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.@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.
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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
@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.
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@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.
Fair enough
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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.@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.
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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.@carnage4life
you have the best posts on here man. I don’t want to go to another service… but maybe I should. -
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.@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?)
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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.@carnage4life we like you!
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@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?)
@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.
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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.@carnage4life thanks for the comparison. I've been completely blind to threads. I'm legit surprised it's got so many active users
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@carnage4life thanks for the comparison. I've been completely blind to threads. I'm legit surprised it's got so many active users
@heathborders @carnage4life We are least engagement on tech topics? What?
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@heathborders @carnage4life We are least engagement on tech topics? What?
@sepdroid @carnage4life I think he means least engagement overall. Of that little engagement, tech topics get most engagement
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@sepdroid @carnage4life I think he means least engagement overall. Of that little engagement, tech topics get most engagement
@heathborders @sepdroid That’s what I meant. Least engagement overall on Mastodon with the engagement that does occur being mostly on tech topics
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@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.
@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.
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