I followed you just so I could #Favorite (#Toot? #Boost?) that post with the picture of your work contraption, but sadly it's not appearing in my timeline... @pixley
That first one would be me! ♻ Karen @pixley: I got a whole passel of new followers today and it is fairly obvious which of them are like programmers and open web geeks who saw my work post and which of them are just regular shitposters who saw me on a #ff
@bobjonkman @lnxw48a1 Google also says "engagement" is low and user sessions usually last around 5 seconds. I read that to mean "Oh crap, I accidentally hit G+, back back BACK."
You may be thinking of !amwriting http://s.russwurm.org/group/amwriting Still hosted on a StatusNet instance, so federation with Mastodon and newer !Fediverse implementations isn't robust.
The problem with Facebook is that network effects make it a necessity for most people. I’m thinking that the best strategy for replacing it with something humane may be to attack different use cases separately.