„Angry at the tech CEOs who have benefited from the scientific research that has enabled their technology empires, but have mounted no opposition to the cuts. People like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos are conspicuously silent. We should call them out,”
“A human lifetime is very limited in time and space, compared to the universe.” In a way, it is humbling, but it’s also a relief to know that there’s a larger structure of which we’re a part that is so grand. Our imperfections, our struggles, our travails, when you put them in perspective, they somehow don’t seem so traumatic.”
We’re all emotional animals. And when there’s a crisis—when there’s no time to study the situation for weeks—we have to decide **now**. We react through our understanding and experiences. So yes, that means we’re all idiots, vulnerable to corruption.
That’s why we created **scientific methods**: to overcome the unchangeable parts of our inner selves.
A person who can clearly see and admit they’re corrupted, selfish, and greedy? They can still create techniques to control themselves. When a person clearly sees that they **can’t change anything**, that’s the first step.
I think the most horrible things—what’s happened and what will happen—come from this sickness in our minds. **And it is unchangeable.**
Environment Scientist(Student), I like positivity news, fitness, Olympic lifting, Linux, Fediverse, art, music, books, science, universe, activism.
Science is not media. I try to avoid, and I am not interested in Media politics, Media religion, media marketing, media economics and trades of those medians.
(he,him,his)
As meditating- listening to myself (Krishnamurti).
Memento mori — “Remember that you must die.”
Memento amoris — “Remember love.”
We are concerned with observing the actual facts, the ‘what is’. To observe ‘what is’ very clearly and to see the full significance of those facts, we must look at it without our conditioning. That is where the difficulty is going to lie, because you have opinions, you have values, you approach them as a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, or what you will, with your nationality, with your peculiar idiosyncrasies, and these prevent you from observing, from looking. Observation is an art. It is not easily learnt. One has observed neither the sunset nor the stars, neither the trees nor the facts, outwardly or inwardly. So, if we are going to travel together – and I hope we will – we have to observe scientifically, ruthlessly and with great intelligence.
From Collected Works, Vol. 14 (krishnamurti)
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” — Albert Einstein
Email: jacob.urlich@tutanota.com
GeePawHill
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •UnitedWeStand🇪🇺🌻🫂
in reply to GeePawHill • • •But for some IT IS easy to follow certain Hashtags they are interested in.
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to GeePawHill • • •@GeePawHill I discovered the most interesting people by subscribing to hashtags. I would never have found specialists for lichens by boosts of people only. It's great if you are interested in more nerdy issues.
@meganmariehart
mirabilos🐈⬛
in reply to GeePawHill • • •iwein
Unknown parent • • •@GeePawHill super convenient for negative filtering though. Some super nice folks out here also post stuff I shouldn't look at. If it's tagged, my filter protects our friendship, and that's worth it to me.
@meganmariehart @metalbrawler
Amateur Human
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •everton137
in reply to Amateur Human • • •Vsevolod Popov
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •David Scott Moyer
in reply to Vsevolod Popov • • •Patrick O'Beirne
in reply to Vsevolod Popov • • •AFAIK people can opt out of allowing full-text search of their posts. If so, you can only find people talking about opera if they use a hashtag #opera.
Goodlucksil
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Goodlucksil • • •🏳️🌈 leberschnitzel 🏳️🌈
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
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in reply to Simon Brooke • • •stux⚡️
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •myrmepropagandist
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •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.
reshared this
myrmepropagandist, David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*), David McMullin and Irenes (many) reshared this.
Claire, The Ultimate Worrier
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird @futurebird well lots of replies with few likes and boosts
it kind of annoyed me that "ratio" shifted meaning to just getting more likes than someone after awhile though
John Tinker
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I can see it either way. We are like little neurons, making our little decisions as we go. Probably doing the best we can, considering.
Megan Marie Hart
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •… and “Look at my cat,” of course.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •(I favourited and boosted this, but given the content of the post, I feel like that could be interpreted as a passive-aggressive attack. It isn't meant to be, I have nothing of value to add to this, but I completely agree with the sentiment expressed.)
Semitones
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •As someone with a large™ following, do you have any recommendations for dealing with notifications?
I've heard several times that creators that seem to be pretty good have trouble dealing with all the replies on Mastodon, specifically.
@meganmariehart
Semitones
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird
Also, probably very few people will find this interesting, but the latest campaign in not another D&D podcast lampoons this kind of social media influencer with a Social Media Warlock (derives her power from her social media following.)
@meganmariehart
Peter
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Peter • • •@sarble @futurebird
Great way to put it! And I agree with both of you. Obviously it's a personal preference, but a like/favorite/boost can mean anything.
I'd rather know:
Did the person really like this? How much? What did they not like? How can I improve?
@meganmariehart
Starhawk
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I, too, like replies more than anything else. Though I often find I have nothing productive, useful, or fun to say. So the favorite button is just "i liked that" and the boost is "my friends will like it too".
skua
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird
"Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies ..."
Me too.
Some if this is valuing dialogue.
And at a slightly different angle I'm getting interested in "What we know" as in "we the folk here and now". So "what is our common knowledge or combined knowledge?".
David McMullin
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •That’s just how I feel too. What I like here are the conversations. I’d rather exchange ideas with a few interesting people than generate large impression counts. I’m in no way opposed to promotion—I hope this medium also gets my music out there too. But it means more to me to know a few people listened and had thoughtful responses—or that one performer would like to play it—than that thousands passively know it exists.
@meganmariehart
Eldritch kcarruthers
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •thaell
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •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)
Howard Chu @ Symas
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 • • •rdm
in reply to Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 • • •@KimSJ
I'm kind of mixed. I'd rather have 10 comments than 100 boosts, but I'd rather have 10 boosts than one comment.
I don't know what that says about me.
Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •2/7
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Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •… to demonstrate that Fediverse posts are worth the time and effort. Perhaps there is also an argument for a feature request: maybe there should be audience metrics for toots?! Though I imagine that could be difficult due to Federation. Again, I have no idea if one already gets numbers and insight by running an instance.)
Perhaps we can move beyond numbers in the long run, but for now, I fear people enjoy them even if they gain nothing from them. Kinda like a game highscore, I suppose.
7/7
Kirsty
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •I run a corporate page on other socials because I can advertise.
I just don’t know how many people (I think a number approaching zero) would follow an Australian shed and cladding company.
Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Kirsty • • •@Kirsty The thing is this: few people complain here about posting about what you do.
There are instances like .art that seek creators who post about what they do.
What people do NOT tend to react well to is the language of avdertising. This can also be about what you do (e.g. LinkedIn), or specific events and services.
What @meganmariehart gets 100% right is behaving as a human being with a job she shows passion for, where she will show what she does.
I haven't yet encountered anyone...
Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Jens Finkhäuser • • •@Kirsty ... that kind of thing.
On the other hand, I've also insta-blocked people who slid into my mentions with the same kind of language that I see in LinkedIn DMs.
We're people here. Our passions are part of us. That's what we connect with.
(I mean me, fair, but it seems to reflect a good part of fedi.)
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Mastodon prepares an entry for newcomers where they can find local instances instead of the one big. They can move at every moment.
My experience with social media (I work professionally with these): With much less followers you get much more interaction and relations to your audience in the Fediverse. But only if you are communicating actively. The ratio
Morten
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •David Bridger
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Megan Marie Hart
Unknown parent • • •Thank you!
Megan Marie Hart
Unknown parent • • •MegatronicThronBanks
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Brisingr
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Marcos Dione
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Edit: oh, my instance only had your first toot. The other 6 appeared only once I replied here. Kinda ignore.
Original: could you edit this toot when you're done? I'm interested, but if I bookmark it, it'll just go into the how-come-it-has-not-toppled-yet pile of to-reads :-G
Marcos Dione
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •I once run an experiment similar to yours. I asked people to boost a toot with a URL to a webserver I controlled, no hashtags either. It got <3k boosts. Yours will probably get similar numbers. At that point, IIRC, the Fedi (or was it just Mastodon?) was ~2M accounts, so it reached ~15% of the net. I wrote abut it here:
grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/pos…
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The mastodon effect: meta discussion
.:: Marcos Dione/StyXman's glob ::.Marcos Dione
in reply to Marcos Dione • • •But hashtags are the best way to reach people. You mention a theater. They should post with hashtags of their region of influence (city, province, etc), the type of œvre (opera, music, etc) and maybe a couple more. They should sniff around until they find the right ones. I wish there were tools for that, hmmm...
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Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Marcos Dione • • •Pflanzen und Bücher
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •social.growyourown.services/@F…
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Ian K Tindale
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Sam Volatile
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •never "quote"d before. Thanks.
Megan Marie Hart
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Maharani Santoso
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Maharani Santoso • • •Naked Hombre
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Why do you use THE IMPERATIVE FORM IN UPPERCASE when you post something?
Do you know the word "please"?
Do you have to SHOUT orders to strangers when you conduct an experiment?
jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •I can't see your post and am way to what ever to read all the rest of your 🧵 ..
😎
Not sure what you want to achive.
Yes we do have some federation statistics in at least some of our backends. friendica servers for example display the amount of platforms, server and people they found in the fedi.
Than there is the part that we don't like the standard fashion influencer who treat us like sheep to heard or cows to milk.
Of course there are business models to think of, but there are a whole lot of middle men that need to jump on the train. An important part of the enshitification talk by @pluralistic is about all this. No clicks you can buy, no algorithm you can buy, no data you can buy to groom your victims.
Like to say, we created this for us and people like you.
❤️
Megan Marie Hart
in reply to jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ • • •Ambulocetus
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Alexander Goeres 𒀯
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Petra van Cronenburg
Unknown parent • • •What's missing in the Fedi are local connections when you depend on real visitors. Hashtags don't work satisfactorily for this. Our groups are only boosting bots. One reason why the museum for which I unofficially do storytelling is officially on Facebook and Instagram: it is that that's where the real visitors are.
I can only encourage people to focus on communication rather than numbers. But this requires people power within the institutions.
Andrea
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •Plus, I would like to add, it takes time to build your audience since you don't get any "help" by inbuilt algorithms. On the other hand, you don't need to try and understand how the algorithms work
I think we will see more people joining open platforms in the long run. When you're socialised with the numbers game, it can be hard to re-learn and focus on the interaction.
cpsask
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Like many others, I saw your boost without any hashtags.
I usually forget to use hashtags and often end up shouting into the wind. But it is ok, I’m as introverted on-line as in person. A large response would likely overwhelm me - 😀
Good luck convincing your group.
SteveJB
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsGuillotine Jones, Flâneur
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •RED5HADES
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Andii
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Iron Bug
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •some platforms (like Mastodon) allow subscription to tags and some filtering on tags. others do not offer that features. but tags often may be used in seatch engines on servers and people may sort out messages with tags for easier search.
GeePawHill
in reply to iwein • • •iwein
Unknown parent • • •@h5e interesting use case yeah.
Maybe this works with content warning already, and we could theoretically simply use another tag symbol (if it's not recognized as a hashtag, it meets your desires)
For example &fediFunctions is very filterable to avoid post like this and it's not recognized as a hashtag. We do need to change habits for it, and that's hard.
And it can easily annoy or inconvenience people as well. Not sure what a screen reader does here, but I'm pretty sure it's not great.
Hanneke
in reply to iwein • • •Chris
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •cognitively accessible math
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Am I seeing *this* post that I am replying to without hashtags? Yes.
Megan Marie Hart
in reply to cognitively accessible math • • •𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖟𝖆𝖟𝖊𝖑⛧
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Megan Marie Hart
in reply to 𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖟𝖆𝖟𝖊𝖑⛧ • • •mirabilos🐈⬛
Unknown parent • • •David - Forking Mad
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •JoyceHumphreys
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Pat (he or she, help test!)
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •I've read your original thread and many of the replies (including some of the rude ones).
I'm sincerely curious about something, though, and if you've said I missed it. Is there a downside to using hashtags that I'm not seeing? Maybe not a hashtag soup, but just, say, "# opera" at the end?
Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Pat (he or she, help test!) • • •acm
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Patrick Morris Miller
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •About the only time I use hashtags is for my Darkover writeups (I do not call them reviews):
* (hash) Darkover so people can find, subscribe - or block! them
* (hash) bookstodon so the Bookstodon bot catches and boosts them.
If the English of a post is littered with Blue Words, my eye will usually skip over it as I've come to expect such posts to be unusually self-important.
Michael Cook
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •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.
Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Michael Cook • • •Kagan MacTane (he/him)
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Rachel Wright
in reply to Megan Marie Hart • • •Megan Marie Hart
in reply to Rachel Wright • • •iwein
Unknown parent • • •Hanneke
in reply to iwein • • •David Mitchell
Unknown parent • • •It’s harder to abuse hashtags here, because if you spam hashtags people care about they will just block you without a second thought… but that makes the right hashtags super valuable because you can quickly engage with your specific community.