Can we make this (or another post)
get +500 boosts, proofing that the argument to stay away from the #fediverse because one can here only reach out to a few is completly wrong?
Wondering how high the reach of this post is?
Well, we don't know. We don't track the users.
You only can see the boosts/fav/reply.
If that's a lot, it reached a lot.
If that made one rethink their opinion here you go:
https://joinmastodon.org
(there is also
#gnusocial #plemora #postactiv #friendica #hubzilla..
@paulfree14 I had toots with >100 boosts, favs. I also discover toots from people much more often than on twitter.
I don't care about the 'reach' and raw 'numbers'. I care that on mastodon people reply, discuss and react instead of playing a game to gain views.
@mulander
well I think it depends for what reason you use something.
I could imagine a indipendent journalist making a research taking about 6 month and writing a paper about it's findings.
Reaching out to people with your findings is part of their work.
So they continue to use (beside journals, newspaper etc.) twitter, facebook and VK to do so.
For that I would say reach is important.
@marsxyz @mulander @paulfree14
> I care that on mastodon people
> reply, discuss and react instead
> of playing a game to gain views.
Indeed.
Tough I understand people getting curious on how far a toot would reach.
Since facebook and twitter helped me reach people when that catastrophic earthquake happened in Japan and Mexico.
I wonder if masto can be so. 'cos usually I ain't a facebook nor a twitter guy but mastodonian.
@KEINOS @marsxyz @paulfree14 people have been using the internet for communication & organization long before facebook/twitter.
The history of ICB (a protocol similar to IRC that is still in use) has a passage about an earthquake in '89
@mulander @marsxyz @paulfree14
I understand. Yes, there are and were ways to communicate and you are right.
But you have to understand that Mexico and Japan weren't that well-appointed at that time and was for only few people.
In Japan, The Internet took a concrete place after the Earth Quake in 2011. Since most the phone lines and cellular went down but the Internet.
This was because phone lines are kinda monopoly in Japan.
So that's why I 👍 Mastodon's decentralized policy.
@paulfree14 additionally you can see that mastodon has a pretty stable and healthy growth of the infrastructure & user base.
https://dashboards.mnm.social