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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

God even here on Lemmy.

I share links, relevant links, in comments.

They just go on, people say thanks.

I share some links on Reddit, and Automod deletes it as "spam". Also because Reddit seems to hate out going links, which is unexpected given what it is.

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

how dare you to add outgoing links in my news aggregator?!

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 102 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This happened to me recently. I posted a link to my Mastodon profile on Facebook to let followers know that I don’t intend to keep using Facebook for music, and it got a total engagement of 2 viewers.

As a test, I posted a dumb meme. ~10k engagement. Facebook intentionally lowers visibility of outside links.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 50 points 3 days ago

The usual trick is to post an image along with "link in the comments".

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

maybe there's some lesson to learn here ... "a platform is free if it allows outside links" or sth

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Oh definitely. I only passively maintain a facebook account for my music.

Not to sound cheesy, but the fediverse is such a wonderful place. I can’t imagine feeling stuck with Meta.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 54 points 3 days ago (4 children)

People actually use threads?

I assumed everyone had moved on to mastodon/bluesky or crawled back to xitter.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People are still using twitter, so a lot of them are extremely conservative in their internet habits (and probably other ways as well).

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

I can understand twitter, it's years of inertia, but threads was the next big thing for all of a week.

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

My wife uses threads because aaron parnas uses it.. and that's where she gets most of her political news.

So it's catch 22 there for me. She's on threads but getting actual news. So... ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago

I tried all three when leaving Twitter and dropped Threads within days because its so bad.

BSky and Masto are decent though.

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[–] Alandrus_Sun@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 days ago

Hate to break it to him. But, the post sucks. It's bland. It's a thumbs up next to an article hyperlink. Throw some spice and humor on it:

"Ayyy, we might get a Back to the Future reboot."

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 days ago

ITT: People discovering the "algorithms" aren't neutral or objective in any way.
Business is business. I remember reading about this shit some 15 years ago on Reddit and other sites/ forums.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I like the old days when I used the landline telephone mounted on the wall. I never once worried about whether or not someone liked my conversation after I hung up.

[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I rate your casual indifference to societal pressure a 4.5 stars out of 5!

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I rate your rating a 3.9 out of 5.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perfect job scoring ops score, I give it a 5 out of 7

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Decent scoring there and a bold move to change the scale, I give it a 6

[–] Tharkys@lemmy.wtf 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I give this response a B-.

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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Not reliving the stupid things I said to my crush on the phone? Absolutely not me in high school.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

the satisfaction of hanging up on someone, slamming the phone hard enough to make the bells ring... <chef's kiss> you had to be there man, it was so good and I didn't appreciate what I had until it was gone.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

You didn’t care if the eavesdropping switch board operator liked your conversation or not?

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[–] misk@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This guy is a political influencer, of course he will measure Mastodon’s worth based on engagement metrics.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He's not comparing the 2 platforms, he is pointing out a flaw in one of them. His message is not "i prefer mastadon for reason x" but "i dislike threads for reason y".

[–] misk@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (20 children)

The flaw is that this content is getting less engagement on Twitter. Chasing engagement is how we got into horrible state of social media we are in now. If something is worth doing then it’ll be worth doing regardless of amount of likes you get.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I think the flaw is intentionally limited visibility by meta, which they are using engagement to track. Considering what they are trying to point out, what other metric do you think they should be using?

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[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His message is not “i prefer mastadon for reason x

First sentence of the post:

Why is Mastodon the best social medium in 2026?

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

You're right, my argument isn't really worded that well, i know, but i stand by the point i made; i believe core of his message is not about comparing the pros and cons of the two services.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 3 days ago

Seriously, I was about to say that's not a good reason to use Mastodon at all...

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

The last thing I posted to facebook was included a link to my own website, and it got buried into oblivion. It was about 5% of the usual response. I suspected the exact same thing.

[–] madjo@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago
[–] username_1@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago

You give me a screenshot of the text instead of the text? You get downvote from me.
You give me a link to the YouTube without any text summary? You get downvote from me.
That's how it work.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm kind of sad that I can't look at the global feed on Mastodon Social anymore. If I'm not already following others, I don't really know what I can do on there but see some news links and brooding angsty posts from mostly the same handful of already popular users in Trending.

Browsing the global feed kind of felt like this.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can also follow hashtags.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Good to know, thanks.

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

Or don't use either. Problem solved.

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