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toot.wales is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
We are the Mastodon social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi'i bweru gan Mastodon!

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Evan Prodromou

My response rates for polls on Twitter were 1-2%.

On Mastodon, it's 15-20%.

Twitter and Facebook throttle our natural engagement with our friends and family and colleagues.

They do it so brands will buy ads to reach people who already follow them.

I didn't realise how pronounced the effect is.

I'm angry.

For years, my connection with the people I care about has been diminished, intentionally, to support a losing advertising scheme.

I want that time with my friends and family back.

Simon 🪗

@evan it's really odd, in that the birdsite introduction of tweet read counts for everyone rather than just the poster emphasises your point, if anything. Seems like a negative thing to do, for them.

I'm more inclined to interact on here, too, less likely to get snark back, and I only just realise now how important that is to me.

Dec 25, 2022, 02:53 PM·Public
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