People are like "oh Mastodon, Cohost, all these other Twitter replacement sites I never get any engagement" and it's like, yea buddy are you actually participating in the community on these sites or are you just posting your shit and absconding
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in reply to @CyanSorcery's post:
This sites push against typical social media "engagement" has made it one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had on the web in years
I was just saying to a friend how, "whilst cohost is easily one of the slower platforms I'm on, the quality of engagement on it has been increadibly high"
The people bemoaning that other platforms aren't viable I think have a lot of addiction and comfort talking for them and just fundamentally don't understand platforms that aren't Twitter
honesfly I haven't done any of teh things I want to do here yef because I've been busy, and I still got more `engafement' here than I ever gof on twiffer just by being silly
exactly yes, this site will never punish you for like, posting something different than usual or not having any real focus to your account, it lets you just exist
cohost has been much better than mastodon in the arena of replacements in that while both lack the amount of eyes that could look, i care far less about it when i'm not shown a bunch of numbers telling me how few people look at what i draw each day |3
i definitely noticed many people coming over here, posting their shit, expecting hundreds of likes and comments, without doing anything else really
not fully blaming them, it's sad that many people just adopted that engagement mindset without valueing real human interactions
yea it's like, yea it sucks to start over on a new site but it's nice to be able to connect with people again
Honestly even as a misanthrope im having a real nice time on cohost~
I think it's easy to ignore the inertia of a network, too. If you've been on twitter for ten years and built up ten thousand followers, that didn't happen overnight, and your first month's were probably really slow.
Even ignoring that different sites foster different communities, if you just dropped into a new, identical twitter clone with a fresh account and maybe a handful of friends today, it would still take time to rebuild connections...
yea lmao, I changed my twitter account almost 3 years ago and I still get new followers whenever I go in there and go "follow my new account" I think people just don't check twitter often, but also, yea it's difficult to get that momentum going
and also the thing of you say to someone "please give mastodon or cohost a try, maybe you'll like it :)" and they go "Ohhhhh, But Mastodon/Cohost Is So Confusing??? I Don't Understand It??? So I Will Not Try It" like well yeah if you don't even try it out then that's kind of a chicken-egg problem huh
yea lmao especially with Mastodon like, "Oh I've heard it's so hard to sign up"
me: do you want me to help you out? I know all about mastodon "no thanks"
me:
ok
I try to participate and get very little engagement. 
Which is a huge step up from the near zero engagement I get on twitter! 
Yeaaaah, it's basically just people thinking they can just go at it like it's Twitter when it just isn't.
It's not about posting for sake of posting and have some see it, it's about just getting around and hanging out; by far what I'd say Cohost does way better than other replacements I tried these past weeks
I'm getting this right now kinda and its weird because I don't have a direct response to things? But also, like, gotta actually start participating indeed.
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