BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
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@meganmariehart Frankly hashtags annoy me.
The idea is good. I can see using one or two.
But 99.9% of posts seem to use either 0 or 40. And at that point it’s just massive visual noise that adds nothing for me.
If they were out of band they’d be better.
I, selfishly, don’t have a lot of interest in making things better for people who want to just spam them on every post to try and get engagement.
@foobarsoft For posts about performances I usually add 'opera' and 'operaSinger' so people can filter me if they want the browser but not art. Then the work we’re performing, the composer, the city and if I have enough room the region. If I just blurt out a random though, I don’t tag them.
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@meganmariehart @staatstheaterdarmstadt
Honestly I think a theater should have an account on a “local” to their physical location instance. It would give them a better, more focused audience.@wndxlori That makes sense in most of the world. However, this might limit the reach, particularly for opera in Europe, where there are so many opera houses! Opera fans travel a lot!
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@jakmarcin Our Aida production is going to the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, which is probably closer to where you are than to where I am, if you want to see it! (Highly recommended! It's a fantastic production. And I'm not just saying that because I was in it!)
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@meganmariehart But look at the engagement your posts have garnered! That includes the reply-guy who you obviously forced, yes, forced, to read your explanatory thread, and whose life is now in ruins.
@withaveeay I’m a meanie! And I’m going to count the holes too!
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@meganmariehart Your post was boosted into my feed by someone I follow. For what it's worth, I think the thing people trained on other social media struggle with about the Fedi is that it's not instant. A post on the Fedi doesn't "go viral" and blast through to everywhere in nothing flat. It burbles on for days, sometimes months, as gradually daisychains out from where it started. So they feel they've had no reach or no interaction, when really they just stopped counting too soon!
@virtuosew That’s a very good point! Sometimes, I get likes and boosts on posts that are years old. I guess theaters that want to publicise upcoming performances would have to post more in advance. The ability to edit posts has helped me a lot when there have been cast changes. I also quote my own posts when I want to add something to a performance I have already posted about.
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I feel like I get more meaningful interaction (and perhaps even ticket sales!) from a Mastodon post about an upcoming show than from posts on other social media platforms. But a “feeling” dosen’t help when trying to convince people to join. Or to get active. My current theater @staatstheaterdarmstadt is on here since 2022 – zero posts! I would like them to get active or even set up their own instance. I think every theater should have its own instance! It can’t be more work than FB and IG.
5/7@staatstheaterdarmstadt @meganmariehart
What a cool experiment!Assuming the theater posts to other social sites, a minimal thing they could do would be to setup #Buffer or something similar, allowing simultaneous posting across multiple sites. Other than the setup, there'd be no additional effort to begin reaching Mastodon.
I'd love to figure out a way to get more small businesses to do that, since I don't use Meta products and miss out a lot on local promotions and specials.
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@wndxlori That makes sense in most of the world. However, this might limit the reach, particularly for opera in Europe, where there are so many opera houses! Opera fans travel a lot!
@meganmariehart nothing in the Fediverse is limited in reach. But in that case, I’d recommend an EU focused server
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Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
@futurebird yeah a good conversation is desirable
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@jesuisatire Yeah, that did not go as intended!
"Unverhofft kommt oft!"
Your initial toot is kinda the most valuable toot on mastodon right now. When ever you change it's content, everyone who boosted it will get the update.
Like to say: "A toot like that in the hands of a profile like mine .."
You should consider to work on that, like:
"[edit:update]
Ok,
sry @ ALL,
but given the fact that this worked out like it did, please help me to play around with this viral boosted toot!Considering the initial idea, I'd like to use this very toot by updating it once a month with the schedule of our theater events.
What do you people think?
Comments?"Don't forget to take note of the boost and fav count ..
(955 boosts and counting) -
"Unverhofft kommt oft!"
Your initial toot is kinda the most valuable toot on mastodon right now. When ever you change it's content, everyone who boosted it will get the update.
Like to say: "A toot like that in the hands of a profile like mine .."
You should consider to work on that, like:
"[edit:update]
Ok,
sry @ ALL,
but given the fact that this worked out like it did, please help me to play around with this viral boosted toot!Considering the initial idea, I'd like to use this very toot by updating it once a month with the schedule of our theater events.
What do you people think?
Comments?"Don't forget to take note of the boost and fav count ..
(955 boosts and counting)@jesuisatire Oooooh, that’s a dangerous idea! (I think you misspelled Booo and block-count!)
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@jesuisatire Oooooh, that’s a dangerous idea! (I think you misspelled Booo and block-count!)
@meganmariehart
> I think you misspelled ..Don't do this never ever again to a dislexic like me.
There is no block-count , I would now, working has hard as I can to get to the top five of:
"Satire darf alles!
(solange sie andere auf den Arm nimmt)"About Boo's and don'ts:
"Wie man in den Wald ruft so schalt es hinaus."If you do it in a respectful, funny and interesting way, sticking more or less to the original idea\proposal it could be interesting for everyone.
You can't think out of the box if you remain in it, much less "um die Ecke denken".
Add a poll asking what you should do.
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Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
@futurebird @meganmariehart completely agree with you !
That being said I don't reply that much even on here because I never know what to say (and maybe because years of other platforms have ruined the way I connect with people online) -
(Nobody actually asked why, but I imagine someone must have thought it.) Curiosity is one reason, the other is a recent offline discussion about whether we are hindering a more wide spread adoption of the Fediverse because we dislike advertisements. It’s possible that brands and “influencer”-type people aren’t getting the kick they’re used to from the Fediverse because there are no metrics showing how many people have seen a post. Perhaps it’s different with your own instance – I don’t know!
2/7@meganmariehart people who want a kick from numbers instead of quality not coming here, isn't a downside but an advantage though.
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@meganmariehart people who want a kick from numbers instead of quality not coming here, isn't a downside but an advantage though.
@codeschubse Right, assuming getting a kick from numbers is somehow an inherent part of their personality. I’d like to believe that they would soon realise that meeting and interacting with real people enriches their lives more than numbers do. Anything I can say to convince people to leave the old socials is anecdotal, and I was hoping for a good anecdote from my post. I got it!
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@meganmariehart Are you aware of https://stootistics.web.app/ ?
@meganmariehart @sonjaschuh01 that tool cannot give a complete answer because it cannot see everyone’s follower lists (they can be set to be not shown to others)
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@sonjaschuh01 @meganmariehart something I discovered is that if you post a link to an image, hit count on the image gives you an idea of views. I post my photos that way, and it seems to track. The same principle as "pixel trackers" in email. If you use a unique link for the post, to say a poster for the event, I don't see a problem with that.
@grant_h @sonjaschuh01 @meganmariehart no, it is instances that download the images, not users, because otherwise it would break privacy; the hit counts would be much lower than the actual views
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@farbel @Sevapopov @meganmariehart you may already be aware, but hashtags are the primary vehicle for searching on Fedi, thus, the primary mechanism for broadcasting topical content.
They also are "the algorithm" - there's nothing finding toots with engagement or funding and putting them in front of your eyes. Hashtags are it... And I honestly think that's a good thing, though I'd like better tools for consuming them.
@ketmorco @farbel @meganmariehart @Sevapopov hashtags do not broadcast anything though, they serve as a selection filter of your instance’s global feed.
Meaning, someone on your instance has to follow the poster or someone who boosted the post, otherwise your instance will not know it and has no (literally no) way to find it in a search.
Instances tend to also load thread context, and public posts when you click on a profile. So, by joining in on discussions under posts (both your own and others’) you begin to build the reach that is necessary for the hashtags to even begin to work. (They also don’t always work for unlisted posts.)
So, hashtags are much less important on the Fediverse than elsewhere, due to the lack of a central registry.
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@meganmariehart Swear to god, hashtags mostly just annoy me. I follow people. They boost people. I pick and choose from their boosteds.
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@GeePawHill @meganmariehart
But for some IT IS easy to follow certain Hashtags they are interested in.@johkra @GeePawHill @meganmariehart won’t help unless they (or at least someone else on the instance) also follows the people. And by doing the latter, tou already see so much more. Then go into discussions to see more interesting people.
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@meganmariehart @metalbrawler The purpose of hashtags is to tag posts on a specific topic so that someone can find them—outside of the timeline, of course. I use both, depending on what I want to see.
@mxe @meganmariehart @metalbrawler won’t work as you think, see my reply above
