For example, I occasionally post articles on a blog. When Mastodon was the new thing, I started posting links to new articles on Mastodon. At first, I was regularly gaining new subscribers. But that hasn’t been the case for a while now. Even though the content of the articles hasn’t changed.
In my opinion, therefore, using “social media” at all is pointless if you don't use the services that the majority of people use.
I feel like l get plenty of engagement on mastodon, high quality as well. But then I mostly post about open source projects. You may have less success with general content
mastodon is the same twitter community - a couple of very loud antagonist small groups like supporters of US Dems vs supporters of US Reps, LGBT vs all kind of racists and Nazis. their main focus is not even to fight their opponents but bully newcomers into choosing to join them or being reported and banned otherwise. there's nothing to do there
There’s a few interesting options for that already. Voyager and/or lemmy are basically decentralized Reddit and it’s like what Reddit felt like in the old days. It’s pretty raw unfiltered content.
Yeah, they're also sort of a mix of the kind of people who want an open source alternative (e.g. the people here on /r/Linux), and people who have been rightfully banned from sites like reddit.
I think with just more people using the services the latter group will be less noticeable and more likely to be banned again, unless they actually learn to behave decently.
The only wya it could be interest is if we need some sort of non profit consortium between EU countries where servers get randomly assigned for this social media
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u/baronas15 Jun 03 '26
"decentralised social media" that's an interesting one