So you want a lot of followers?
Just be a mod! Everyone is required to follow you! It's the easy way to fake popularity on the internet! :D
@freemo lol. Most of my followers are from Qoto, I think.
@freemo I have, at best 50-100 followers that are mine because of me.
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@Surasanji A lot are in your case I suppose :)
@Surasanji We have some new usrs who have only been here a few days and already have 100 users
@freemo @Surasanji Not for the followers count, but working on the community and helping out is a good thing. Not only good Karma, but you help make the place even better.
Large places like twitter or facebook are much less personal, and people might get together in little cliques.
I enjoyed participating in Forums much better, themed ones which I was interested in. FB has some good groups I enjoyed participating and learning on, but finding information in them is impossible. Terrible architecture, compared to threaded posts in Forums, subforums.
@design_RG @freemo Never been much a fan of cliques. I've got the feeling Freemo and I agree on that.
Agreed, if i start fitting in, specifically with a specific group with a narrow ideology, I usually start to worry that im doing something wrong.
@freemo @Surasanji Yeah, I am not much into the cliques as well.
In the large sites, it might be a way to stay afloat though. I barely received any mentions or replies from posts in Twitter, so there's less reason to return. Hard to create a community there.
Here I was surprised on how soon I was receiving replies and boosts from other instances even.
The users here are nice as well, and the community size seems ideal; not too small, so there's action and new posts to keep us interested; not too large that we get lost on the flood.
Yea I can say without a doubt that its far easier for your average user to aquire followers here than on twitter.
I have a decent number of followers on twitter but never found my users interesting or engaging there.
@freemo @Surasanji That and the fact that we get exposed to unexpected content, which might turn interesting and expand minds.
I am very tired of the repetitiveness of posts on the Facebook feed, so barely visit and even less post there. I have a lot of Brazilian friends, most into Cycling, and they are split pretty badly into opposing political lines nowadays.
Even reading the news about the country I find depressing, and would rather have them from a good source, like the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
Meme, name calling and such, I have no need for. The country has serious problems (I immigrated many years ago in despair), and there's little we can do individually, or seating at a keyboard or tapping a phone screen.
Agreed, more variety here since im not forced to see only what I like or am into.
Sadly for some who like their little bubble this causes some groups to be generous with the ban button. But those are mostly the sort of people I wouldn't want to engage in anyway.
By the way we also maintain a free discourse instance (and many other services) for that reason: https://discourse.qoto.org
@freemo @Surasanji That's very nice! Thank you!
@Surasanji Psshhh Someone tried to tell me that once as a way to dismiss my follower count (which they brought up in the first place).. Except I have twice as many followers as our entire instance has users :)