seeing artists bemoan this site because "finding posts is hard without an algorithm" but then post on bluesky being like "please share all the art you see because this site doesn't have an algorithm" is gonna make me go insane
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in reply to @erica's post:
like seeing people be like Hey Man Let's Band Together for fuckin BlueSky when they turned tail the moment the stepped foot here is just like... we truly can't have nice things huh
being a public-facing illustrator seems . . . extremely difficult tbh!
The Algorithm is this close to becoming a holy entity
It's the necessity of making a living as an artisan that leads people to desire the algorithm, and which I deeply hope that culture as a whole will someday transcend.
Ah yes, the classic “I say community but I actually mean audience” special
Considering some of the posts on here, I honestly think it's good that some posts are hard to find.
I guess lack of familiarity, adjustment to a new site, losing those convenience on another site and finding an audience is turn off to some.
It's funny seeing this post since most of the people who "left," other SM like Instagram and Twitter, especially after Elon Musk did... all of that, to give Tumblr a try, said the same things like "omg, it's so boring here? How do you even find stuff??? What am I even supposed to do here" when the site has never had an algorithm before and what YOU see is based on your curation. Social media has gotten too many people used to being spoon-fed things from the trending tag. Also, Cohost is still relatively new so it does feel like a bit of a wasteland here but you can still find a lot of stuff if you look hard enough. It's still growing from what it looks like.
I did an experiment a bit ago for two weeks to see where the majority of my audience/traffic was coming from on my Patreon and despite having like 100k on Twitter and 4k on BS, the majority of people clicking through to Patreon came from Cohost. Most SNS have just gotten really good at convincing you through metrics and site structure that your audience is a lot larger than it actually is and that everyone is listening to you when they... kind of aren't. I think a lot of people come here and they see tags, no algo, no recommendations, and no metrics (no RTs or like counts) and think "oh no, nobody is seeing my stuff" but it's like... extremely not true, even with a much lower userbase. And that's with it still growing, like you said!
But yeah I think it's people just maybe not.... realizing that they're actually way more accustomed to these systems/algorithms than they want to admit they are. Some other folks have said it in the replies to this already but there's also a kind of nasty thing of 'people saying they want a community when they actually just want an audience'. There's a pretty strong difference and while 'audience' might get you a lot of numbers, 'community' is what will get you a lot of support and that's kind of what places like this are more interested in building. I just wish it was easier for some folks to break through a bit and see that.
you couldnt see /anything/ on bluesky without an account like just a week ago and it STILL needs an invite
what the hell