I found myself at not being able to find something that sparks my interest to follow on Mastodon. So please share with me your interesting finds. No restrictions…
I found myself at not being able to find something that sparks my interest to follow on Mastodon. So please share with me your interesting finds. No restrictions…
Is mastodon worth signing up for, as a content creator?
I used to be a pretty avid tweeter - I’d post random things related to my job (software engineer), like gotchas I encountered, new articles I’d written etc etc, but I left Twitter when a certain somebody took over.
I’m not bothered about a large following, but I did enjoy randomly helping people that would see my tweets and fix their issue / help with the thing they were working on.
I’d say so!
I’m way more active on Mastodon than I was on Twitter.
Thanks! Maybe I’ll give it a go then!
In my experience (not an expert but I’ve been active on there across two accounts for most of a year) it’s going to depend on what approach you take. If you’re there to advertise your content only (not sure if it’s video, podcast, blog or whatever but same applies regardless), you probably won’t have a great time. Pure brand accounts aren’t as much of a thing there as on Twitter.
If you’re there to meet interesting people and share interesting info that maybe happens to be related to what you’re selling but for the most part isn’t directly pushing it, you’ll be fine. Though you’ll probably want to find an instance that allows self-promo, since some don’t.
But bear in mind the culture around things like content warnings, alt text on images, that sort of thing. You might find that the sort of content you share on other sites isn’t going to perform as well due to having to slap a warning on it for eye contact, for example.
I’m not interested in promoting or advertising. The vast majority of my tweets where just sharing random things I came across while working, or reminders when I encounter gotchas (e.g. slices as function parameters in Go).
Being completely honest, not overly interested in meeting people either. I’ll give it a few months and see how it goes :)
Aha! Sounds like we just have different definitions of “content creator”, that just sounds like a normal account to me. In that case, you’ll be fine, just remember to hashtag everything for discoverability.
Fyi it’s also a custom to make an intro post when you join, tag it with #introduction and just let people know what to expect from your account. Load it up with the relevant tags so people watching them find your account, it’s usually a good way to kick things off and get some initial followers.
Enjoy! :)
This was probably just me confusing things =]. I used to post all my blog posts etc on Twitter, but I have no intention of doing that on Mastodon. I didn’t spend enough time ensuring there was a distinction between the two platforms.
Ah ok, thanks! I have already started posting but I’ll do that anyway. Thanks :)
For sure, peoples’ only gripes with Mastodon is that it only has chronological timeline, which I personally prefer over Algorithms.
If you did, I’d absolutely follow you. Stuff like that is fun to read. @emptyother@oslo.town Im not big on asking for help though.
I did end up creating an account, but I’m not sure about posting my handle here as I want to keep the things separate (especially as I’m using my name on mastodon).