Experimented with reach on Twitter vs Mastodon by sending the same “canary” post on both platforms. I saw about the same engagement on both, despite having 4% the followers here.
Feels like the value of Twitter’s network is overestimated. If you’ve been there 10+ years, I bet most of your followers are inactive, and it’s harder than ever to get your tweets viewed because of the algorithmic timeline. Mastodon might be at the point where it delivers the same value. At least in my circles.
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@sandofsky Its also possible that mastodon users are more likely to engage in posts that show mastodon as superior whereas twitter accounts are likely to not care and ignore it... This doesnt neccesarly demonstrate how frequently a post is seen.
That said it does show, and my expiernce agrees, that you get far more engagement on the fedi.
@freemo @sandofsky That could be a partial explanation, but I suspect that of the current Mastodon user base, this kind of 'partisan' is a small minority. I will confess to belonging to it though 🤣 Also, favoriting is an almost zero-cost courtesy that doesn't test motivation.
@freemo @sandofsky Too bad I can't find it anymore. But just this morning I saw a post here, where someone showed, that he got more referrals from his mastodon account to his webpage than from his twitter account, although he only has about 1/4 of the follower count here, compared with twitter.
@freemo @sandofsky Def need to fall back to the classic, generically cute cat videos metric .