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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm probably one of those. I joined because it was a low hanging fruit for an instagram user. It is basically twitter culture all over again. People complain that you're just posting into a void on Mastodon but I get tons of responses over there. The real void is any mainstream social media where only the voice of influencers are amplified. The whole main feed is just 90% suggested posts. Why the fuck do I wanna see a post from Jake Paul or Mr. Beast?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My experience as well. I blitzed and grinded followers cuz it was easy and why not. My feed is okay in general, but I had to follower 1.5kish people to get it that way.

But I still get more than twice the engagement and meaningful engagement at that on Mastadon and Kbin, with less than half the followers. I also get little out of twitter, but I may be bad at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put out robot bait and the follows just rack up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

what's the point of having robot followers tho