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ARTSY FARTSY MALARKEY
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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET VIEWERS TO RESPOND?
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lexylee63
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good points, all.
lexylee63 - thank you for the response - makes you a 1%, one in a hundred human enough to respond...
Well, i am actually just a low-grade hauler bot...but seriously, since being on loforo, I had puzzled a bit over what aggravated me about it, and your talking points are all going in the right direction, I think.
the token reward system is already here: thats the number of reposts; this worked on soup and it works pretty well here. problem with how active people are is either due to amount of active users or how the main content stream work or both.
there are other more important issues that havent been solved:
theres no way to delete an account or blog; you cant even make a backup of your blog.
theres no way to keep blocked people from interacting with your content; and theres no way to manage blocked people from your side - you have to know whom did you blocked.
nsfw content spills into sfw mode. (1)
the /everyone activity stream isnt chronological and stuff posted shows up with a delay - prob due to admin(s) watching content. still, this shouldnt happen.
blogs at some point were mirrored on mastodon - cant tell if its official or someone scrapped the data: https://mastodon.world/@benefactor@loforo.com
switching between blogs on desktop is still broken and requires weird tai-chi with arrow keys. (2)
thriceuponatime - thanks for your comment, appreciated. I had noticed you can't delete an account. Spills into sfw mode is really concerning.
Knowing someone has reposted an item is rewarding but not the depth of interaction I am needing to maintain my page. I have had several Mastodon accounts and at some point I canceled each of them because viewers where just consuming: no feedback, no thanks, no contributions, no relating - just ghost in the void gullet feeding on my media.
thiceuponatime - I don't call that social interaction.
If 5% made some attempt a real contact I think that would be enough - but here we have 220 views of this topic and only 1% took the time to respond.
If Mastodon/Loforo 'social media apps' only house social rejects, silent voyeurs, empty accounts just made to leech off others, etc. then these platforms will die because there is no incentive to hang around.
benefactor...and we will be left with X and TikTok and Insta...ugh.
Funnily enough, this thread is the ONLY one that i have even seen in my -admittedly brief-loforo experience.
There are a few humans at Masto that I chat with regularly, but still nothing like the quantitiy that I had on reddit.
lexylee63 - Yes! I think Reddit takes the cake; plenty of humor from users that are sharper than your average social app user and there are groups just about any purpose. The flip would be Likee. X has become too political. Insta is enjoyable for entertainment. Just don't trust FaceBook.
If Loforo could make the changes suggested maybe they could stand out and above other Mastodon instances. I wonder if a language barrier is not the problem here - need to learn Polish....