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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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an artists experience on instagram and mastodon (mastodon.art)
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You want to know the value of Mastodon over Insta? Posted this on Instagram to the 15k followers I have there, properly tagged. 29 likes, no comments.

Masto? So much engagement. So much fun discussion. So much more community.

Numbers don't mean squat if you don't have the follow through. I've never sold a single piece of art through Insta. People on Insta like passively browsing through images and tapping the heart. For an artist, it's a useless audience.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is really comforting - especially as I'm a self-employed freelancer who has continually left traditional social media sites and moved more and more onto the Fediverse!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The thing that most content creators don't get, and fall victim to, is that those platforms are created with the sole purpose of being the place where people go for content. This way, the platform gets a piece of not only any profit from the content which is successful, but also gets mindshare, and cachet from even failure to find content. That "almost what I wanted but not quite" feeling gets associated. So people keep coming back to the failure platform, hoping that one day the content they want will be there.