I confess that one reason I like Bluesky is that my posts sometimes get more attention there than they tend to on other non-FB platforms.<\/p>\r\n
I post the same things to all the platforms I\u2019m on. Usually the original post is on Facebook, and then I post abbreviated versions of it to all the other platforms I\u2019m on, because they all have character-count limits. (This reposting unfortunately means some people see the same post in multiple places, but on each platform I have some friends and followers who aren\u2019t on the other platforms.) (In some cases, I post here to my blog instead of posting to the non-Facebook platforms.) But the posts get different amounts of attention in different places.<\/p>\r\n
Like, on Twitter, back when I posted there, my posts tended to get an average of 0 engagement. (I\u2019m rounding down.) Maybe something like 1 in 5 posts would get a like or a retweet or two? (All of the numbers in this post are guesses; I haven\u2019t run stats.) But most of my tweets got no engagement. (Which is fair; I didn\u2019t engage a lot with other people on Twitter either.)<\/p>\r\n
On Mastodon, the numbers are similar, though I feel like when people do engage with my posts there, that engagement comes from more different people than the few who sometimes engaged with my tweets.<\/p>\r\n
On Facebook, my posts tend to get an average of about 10-15 likes and comments and shares, which feels comfortable to me. (The usual range being from about 0 to about 50.) Not infrequently, a post gets a few dozen more than that, which is always nice. I dislike all sorts of things about FB, but what keeps me there as my primary social media platform is the sense of community.<\/p>\r\n
On Bluesky, most of my posts get about 0-2 likes and reposts (average of about 1), but some of them get a couple dozen. And my post from earlier this week about David Tennant and the trans-flag-colored TARDIS pin has now had nearly 750 likes and reposts on Bluesky, which is more than the vast majority of my FB posts, and probably far more than anything I ever posted on Twitter. And the responses I get on Bluesky, even from strangers, are mostly positive.<\/p>\r\n
I don\u2019t generally think a lot about engagement numbers for my posts. I post things that I think are interesting and worth sharing, and I figure that how much reaction they get on a given platform generally has more to do with the vagaries of that platform\u2019s Algorithm than with much of anything else.<\/p>\r\n
But even so, when I visit Bluesky it\u2019s relatively likely that I\u2019ll see notifications telling me that people liked things that I posted. And much as I wouldn\u2019t want to get all of my validation from a source like that, I can\u2019t deny that it\u2019s a nice feeling.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journaling","category-social-networking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20971,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions\/20971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}