@meganmariehart thanks, now I can see the thread! Much appreciated. (It might be my home server being a little slow, not sure.)

@meganmariehart this is an anti-influencer platform for sure, it requires so much more effort to have minimal reach unless you have a built-in audience. It's very much like real-life organization I guess, where you need to find your audience and help them engage more with you specifically. People don't often stumble upon your content organically unless they have a federated timeline, which is wild and full of dicks.

@meganmariehart

I suspect that the example of .art and other interest/topic based instances could be a good in between place: If a mid to large sized arts funder/coordinator were to spin up an instance so that theatres and artists can have a presence without having to run their own instances, that might help bridge the gap.

In the comments I read chatter about the different houses you’ve engaged with: what if there was an opera.de instance (orchester.de or just KlassischeMusik.de)

A large enough category with a large enough geography to create internal activity and share the burden of host and moderating but small and local enough to keep a unique character.

@jens @Kirsty

@meganmariehart

I have no interest in seeing brands and influencer type people here. If they start showing up en masse, I will leave.

@geonz Okay, my bad, not idealy worded. I explained my intentions in a reply thread later on. (In short, I want to convince people who are still fixated on numbers to join the Fediverse.)

@meganmariehart favorites would have been the 'neutral' way 2 tell but i get the 'simulate' part

but then again well used hashtags will always expose a post to a more relevant audience, which gives the best engagement

@meganmariehart note that in the fediverse, engagement is not a measurement of impact. That is only valid on algorithmic platforms that spray content like a shower of feces over everyone, regardless of susceptibility to the content

@meganmariehart @jens @Kirsty

I manage socials for a performing ensemble and I get similar responses from our pre-concert posts here as I do on FB and Insta. The metrics *look* lower, but almost as many people actually engage. And yes, speaking of interests and passions comes easier in arts perhaps: we share, we inform, we give clips to experience and that can have value in the community beyond driving sales or tickets.

@meganmariehart

I have been proclaiming the same. Mostly toward our elected members of parliament and those in the government. Leave X and setup your own instance on the Fediverse, because on X you have to login to read what they wrote which is a severe threat to democracy. You don’t need that on Mastodon.

But every organisation should run their own outlet.

@meganmariehart

I could be mistaken, but I see Fediverse interaction as more organic/direct. A post without hashtags is a cross between screaming into the void (low follower count) and addressing a audience (high follower count) with your content ultimately being spread by word of mouth (Boosts). Adding a hashtag would be the equivalent of posting on a bulletin board or presenting to a special interest group. Those who want to know will be able to find your post easier.

I don't think it's advertisements that are disliked but the unscrupulous use of tracking data and the bombardment of information which we neither asked for nor want. The latter is the primary use-case for "influencers" in my experience.

@Kierkegaanks

“algorithmic platforms that spray content like a shower of feces over everyone”

I’ll keep that phrase handy to pull out in context, it would be a shame to leave such an astute assessment unused.

@meganmariehart

@meuwese Funny enough, our theater has traditional paper posters up on the streets for most shows. There are no metrics available for those. (Though I assume the advertising agency makes up some numbers on request, like “50.000 people pass this poster in the train station every day“ or something.) The advantage of posters is that they advertise not only the specific show, but also the theater's presence in the city!

@metalbrawler @meganmariehart

It’s harder to abuse hashtags here, because if you spam hashtags people care about they will just block you without a second thought… but that makes the right hashtags super valuable because you can quickly engage with your specific community.