it's like a double edged sword i guess 😭 pure luck but chaos on your feed or quiet peace but then actual silence if you don't contribute to it. as someone who's had a hard time to interact it gets even harder to start things when i've built from clean feeds 🥲 looking back now idk What to do
exactly, you have to sacrifice one thing and honestly if everyone just moved... would be good 😭 I do think interactions make the quiet vibe much more palatable!! I feel like people are also much more inclined to interact with strangers here so I'm encouraging you 🫰 im sure you'll get a pleasant time
IM ALSO ENCOURAGING!! I definitely feel like interactions are a huge part of establishing yourself on here, way more so than it was on twitter. I get a lot of replies from strangers, & I feel like I rarely get anyone unsavory. But block works great tho! instantly vaporized :3
ough you two 🥺🥺🥺 am trying my very best and will try harder!! it does feel comforting that despite the silence you won't get those bad peeps, it feels nicer to just vibe THO its gonna take a while for me... holding ur handsies i will be the bravest nut for yew and me
WE ARE HERE FOR YOU!! And you can go at your own pace too! I'm just glad to see so many friends coming over here 🥺and the ability to subscribe to block lists is soooo nice, already purging the people I know will cause problems 🫶
dhdjek as an introvert this sounds ominous 😭 and i really admire you for how you handle it!!! youre so cool!! but also the interactions I've gotten were all super sweet so far and somehow so much more genuine than the mean blue bird so yeah I totally agree!!!
kjgnskejgns OMINOUS 😭 i promise not scary I'll protect you if anyone is weird!!!! Its a really lovely change of pace to engage so much with my followers compared to how it was on twitter. A lot of people are very kind and supportive on here, and I've been surprised, I've met lots of new people too!
I 100% get this 😭😭 I don't post or anything but it really does suck to see creators (specifically artists) who would have normally blown up on twt get only around 1-15 likes on here<\3 price to pay peace ig :((
yeah, it's honestly disheartening and very demotivating, for some of us it's taken years to gather a decent following so seeing it all crumble for the ego of a stoopid man is just sad 😮💨 I guess it's a forced reboot into sharing just for passion 😅
There really is no algorithm. Tags do work, but especially with the influx of twt users recently I am seeing a lot of twt habits being used that have no effect because… no algorithm. Likes mean nothing here- it only adds things to your own personal feed but doesn’t increase the reach of the post
The best thing to do is share, but twt users are notoriously bad at that because they got into the habit of not wanting to “clog their feed.” But that’s not an issue here because everyone can curate the feeds they see. Something I’ve seen artists doing here is setting up a feed that collects+
-all their art posts into one feed that people can subscribe to. So anyone following that feed will never miss one of that artist’s posts. But even then if no one shares anyone’s stuff we all get locked into little bubbles where we aren’t discovering even what our friends like because no one-
-is sharing. Lol idk if it’s obvious that I’m getting frustrated with the “like over share” twt mentality 😅 hopefully with time people will all learn and adapt to the ways of bsky over their comfy twt habits, but until then it’s going to be frustrating for everyone involved.
I think a little chaos before people get used to the system here is inevitable, just like tumblr had to remind new twt users basic etiquette last year 😭 but in the case of artist (which is pretty much the only pov I can give), I don't think the likes over shares preference is inherent to twitter
because it's also been happening on tumblr and other platforms, and so long as there isn't an option for priv accounts, I don't expect creatives to privilege reshares regardless of feeds for a while simply because it's additional work to put into curating your profile that many do not consider
in all honesty I'm getting very tired of "managing" socmed, but once it has an influence on your income you can't really help but try to "build" them, and starting over after twt (which was just pure luck) is demanding too much of my energy 😭
so I'm kinda stuck in this in between where I wish I'd get even 1/10th of the following I had on twt but also knowing that was a fluke I should know better than to expect, so just vibing instead? habits die hard unfortunately and it really lowers the enjoyment
I've been seeing people adding a lot of different tags to their art to hit different people who follow them. Personally I like tags bc i can organize my own art and search thru later? I feel like people have mostly been finding me through tags depending on what I post
if they do work then i'll try using them better! I got ptsd from twitter cause you tag too little you get no visibility you tag too much u get shadowbanned 😵💫 like thank god for tags that are actually meant to organise stuff
I KNOW, I remember using tags only some of the time bc they had weird associations.. but I think here a LOT of people use them bc theres a lot of benefits to it!! It reminds me of the tagging system on tumblr, being able to find specific posts with labels was so nice...
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