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Justin Pot

An underrated thing about there not being an algorithm here is you can basically be inactive for two months and then write a message that’s seen by tens of thousands of people. You don’t need to keep gaming the system in order to get visibility.

@jhpot technically you are still gaming the system. It’s just that the rules are transparent and simple here.

@zaku @jhpot
>> the rules are transparent and simple

The aspirations and intentions here are different than commercialized media. Here, no-one cares that you're a cat.

@jhpot @lisamelton
The other underrated thing is I used to game the system “there” and still didn’t get visibility… so I’m a terrible gamer, but here it’s a community, not a console.

@jhpot
Thank you for articulating this.

This is exactly what I like about Mastodon.
Combine it with @ivory and some “lists” of your faves, and I can know I don’t miss the posts of the people I’m interested in.

And they can maintain high signal to noise in their content posting.

🎯

@jhpot I was away for three months. When I came back earlier this week I got an immediate three or four replies to my first post.