Is it just me? Very, very few toots I see have any responses.
@david_orr guess be more fun so that people engage? :P
@kreyren Good shout but I’m not talking about my boring messages, I’m just noting that hardly any messages I see get any responses. Literally, no responses.
@david_orr The federated timeline is that way as it's showing messages from all users across fediverse.
So you will see a lot of new users and users with not much followers in super majority
If you want to see more engaged posts then go follow popular people and then it will be in the local timeline or make a list for things that interest you
@kreyren I’m not particularly ’wanting’ to see more ‘engaged posts’, I just wonder why the level of engagement is seemingly much less than elsewhere.
@david_orr For example on twitter you get AI that is manipulating people's opinions through various promoting and shadow bans the unpopular opinions (as those lower engagement) to display popular posts with high engagement while censoring the rest of the people so that's why that platform and alike seems more engaged compared to mastodon.
@kreyren Good luck to you Kreyren but I can’t think of anything more depressing than following people based on their popularity. I still note that the level of engagement on here is disappointingly low. I don’t really want to ‘engage’ with Elon Musk’s flight tracker.
@david_orr i am not saying you should i am trying to explain to you how the concept of engagements works on social networks :D
Figure out what you like and then go follow the relevant people or hashtags is usually the way to go on mastodon
@david_orr So the way to get mastodon seem more lively is to follow people with high engagements e.g. make a list of popular people on mastodon https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpUKkoT1MUn8_xM4usiERn-IdEuh0hXfBrwbbThwGiI/edit#gid=0
And you will get a wall full of endless replies which is basically what twitter does just on more sophisticated level