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1. David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 00:02:20 UTC David Revoy

   New article on my blog: "How proprietary social-medias are shaping the future of Pepper&Carrot"

   https://www.davidrevoy.com/article904/how-proprietary-social-medias-are-shaping-the-future-of-peppercarrot

   • WelshPixie (dawel a dirgel) (welshpixie@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 00:02:19 UTC WelshPixie (dawel a dirgel)

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     @davidrevoy That thing you say about proprietary social media having rules they don't tell us about that changes how our content is engaged with is so true, and so gross. I wonder how many people on Instagram know that your posts will get pushed more if you reply to comments within an hour? Not many I'll bet.

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   • Arthur Dent (le_arthurdent@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 00:03:10 UTC Arthur Dent

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     @davidrevoy Very sorry to hear about these problems and that you are not free in choosing your format of publishing due to seemingly arbitrary rules.

     There is actually a term for that called "structural violence" and I believe content creators on social media do very much suffer from it.

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   • Terry Hancock (terryhancock@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 04:42:19 UTC Terry Hancock

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     @davidrevoy
     Yeah, I've gotten increasingly frustrated with FB's post promotion/demotion antics, myself.

     I did find that images and text posts on the site get better exposure than links.

     But a lot more people respond to posts I put up here on Mastodon. It's a lot more fun.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Apr-2022 13:06:37 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @davidrevoy I read this a week ago, but only now did it dawn on me that this ties into what Fowl Language is doing when posting on silos.
     
     There will be a post of one frame, and the text "link to full comic in the comments". Now I finally connected that with your observation that posts with links are punished.
     
     I wonder how long that hack will work.
   • Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Apr-2022 17:38:53 UTC Mark Shane Hayden

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke @davidrevoy I really hope things settle down a bit with the algorithms on the Big Socials. It is great that creative types use their creativity to work around these hostile practices but this is fostering the "cargo cult" mentality already endemic on YouTube so I really hope you can keep a good presence on the indie-web where such things aren't an issue.

     Left unchecked, advertising-driven social media algorithms turn all web comics into Garfield.

   • David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Apr-2022 17:38:53 UTC David Revoy

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     • Mark Shane Hayden
     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @msh @clacke Oh yes, I noticed about the links posted in the first comment, or with creator directly commenting their own post after posting.
     Some engineers of social media probably laught a lot when they see the rules abandoned by their algorythm while userbase keep the behavior. I wonder how many behavior are efective, and how many are pure superstition. I feel a bit like lab 🐀
     😆

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