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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 22:09:29 UTC Aral Balkan

   The difference between a closed, algorithmically-curated silo like Twitter and the fediverse.

   Same post.

   Twitter: ~43K “followers”, 8 boosts, 58 likes
   Fediverse: ~8.43K followers, 57 boosts, 106 likes

   Your thousands of “followers” on Twitter mean nothing because the algorithm (i.e., Twitter, Inc.) decides who gets to hear you.

   #fediverse

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 22:09:11 UTC Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Keith Whyte

     @keith I’m forwarding from here. I still have people there that see my tweets who are not here (members of European Parliament, etc.) When I feel it’s no longer useful, I’ll close it down. Does that make sense?

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   • Luca (lucamp@mastodon.uno)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 22:09:23 UTC Luca

     in reply to

     • Carlo Gubitosa :mastodon:

     @gubi @aral sorry men, but it's not wise to use these as they are.

     It's like going to a vegan party shouting "fuck beef", you definitely have more response.

     If you are able to get the actual numbers of people who have watch your posts, at least you can state if Twitter algorithm is hiding you. But again, you can't compare them.

     However you can use your twitter posts to explain them why big tech fucks and how mastodon works without forcing them to leave

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   • Keith Whyte (keith@mamut.tic-ac.org)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 22:09:28 UTC Keith Whyte

     in reply to

     @aral
     So with all sincerity then, why are you still using Twitter? Don't you think that your presence there somehow validates the platform?

     I don't mean that as some random bitchy (twitter style) comeback. Really. isn't it time to "vote with our feet"?
     Or if not now, when?

   • Carlo Gubitosa :mastodon: (gubi@sociale.network)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 22:09:29 UTC Carlo Gubitosa :mastodon:

     in reply to

     @aral can I use these screenshots for a presentation of the fediverse?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jan-2022 14:34:00 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     in reply to

     • Goutte
     @Goutte That's the core of the argument . @aral has fewer followers than aral@twitter.com .
     
     Naively one could assume that the base rate of reactions on the Twitter account would be five times that of the Fedi account.
   • goutte@mastodon.social's status on Sunday, 02-Jan-2022 14:34:06 UTC Goutte

     in reply to

     @aral
     Obligatory XKCD (Base Rate)
     https://xkcd.com/2476/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jan-2022 19:22:50 UTC Aral Balkan

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     • Попутчик

     @poputchik Wanna buy me a new phone? (Kidding, please don’t. No, I’m not going to throw away my phone overnight but I am looking for alternatives.)

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   • Попутчик (poputchik@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jan-2022 19:22:55 UTC Попутчик

     in reply to

     @aral Wait, you were (still are?) using Apple iPhone to post those.