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Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by tambourine_man »

criddell wrote: post #19
sph wrote: post #12

Of course not. Social media is shouting at the void at best, but usual self-contained rage bait. People open Twitter/Mastodon to doomscroll and post their thoughts, and could not care less about linked content. I have seen the same exact pattern with trying to mention my latest blog posts on Mastodon or other social media: no one cares. I had much more engagement posting on Linkedin, though one would believe that wit…

> Social media is shouting at the void at best At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.

That's what a social network was supposed to be. We changed the name because it's not that anymore. It's people you never knew and never will producing content in exchange for advertisement.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by micromacrofoot »

blueboo wrote: post #7

Depends on your goals. People are beginning to shop primarily on TikTok and Instagram. Social media seems to be enshittify-evolving to be the new e-commerce. Meanwhile, summarising posts in video on Shorts/Reels/TikTok might be quite a traffic bump. I’m seeing big numbers from channels that typically offer thoughtful, long-form content

even google is being eaten by ecommerce, video games are often piles of micro transactions… everything is a store

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by altdataseller »

Nobody would care if you own just a personal site, but if you’re a company (and not well know ) I sometimes check to see if you’re on LinkedIn, or have posted recently on Twitter. Because if you haven’t, that might be a sign you might be going out of business

Maybe that’s unfair. But I would think twice before relying on your product for anything important

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by snapcaster »

criddell wrote: post #19
sph wrote: post #12

Of course not. Social media is shouting at the void at best, but usual self-contained rage bait. People open Twitter/Mastodon to doomscroll and post their thoughts, and could not care less about linked content. I have seen the same exact pattern with trying to mention my latest blog posts on Mastodon or other social media: no one cares. I had much more engagement posting on Linkedin, though one would believe that wit…

> Social media is shouting at the void at best At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.

No it isn't, unless you define down "keeping in touch" to be so trivial it loses all meaning

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by flurdy »

weinzierl wrote: post #16

I find it interesting, that social media and messaging apps are kind of thrown into one pot increasingly. My mental model has always been like: - Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon - Slack, Discord, Zulip, IRC - WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Matrix - Zoom, Teams, Jitsi With mass communication to individual communication from top to bottom (and increasing freedom roughly from left to right). It seems these distinctions get blur…

With the addition of TikTok, Instagram, Shorts as the top row? And Email at the bottom?

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by blueflow »

criddell wrote: post #19
sph wrote: post #12

Of course not. Social media is shouting at the void at best, but usual self-contained rage bait. People open Twitter/Mastodon to doomscroll and post their thoughts, and could not care less about linked content. I have seen the same exact pattern with trying to mention my latest blog posts on Mastodon or other social media: no one cares. I had much more engagement posting on Linkedin, though one would believe that wit…

> Social media is shouting at the void at best At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.

Honestly, i don't need to see my aunts and uncles posting pictures of themselves LARP'ing what society considers a happy life.

Not saying that they are not happy, but all the social media stuff feels so staged and unreal.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by outime »

weinzierl wrote: post #16

I find it interesting, that social media and messaging apps are kind of thrown into one pot increasingly. My mental model has always been like: - Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon - Slack, Discord, Zulip, IRC - WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Matrix - Zoom, Teams, Jitsi With mass communication to individual communication from top to bottom (and increasing freedom roughly from left to right). It seems these distinctions get blur…

I find it funny that if I were to read your comment outside of this website, I could most likely identify it as a HN comment because it mentions barely-used sites popular in HN (such as Bluesky, Signal, Jitsi, IRC, etc), but skips mentioning actually popular ones everywhere else (like Snapchat, Facebook/Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, etc).

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by mrmlz »

snapcaster wrote: post #34
criddell wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Social media is shouting at the void at best At best, social media is an additional way of keeping in touch with people you know and care about.

No it isn't, unless you define down "keeping in touch" to be so trivial it loses all meaning

Elitist.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by mrtksn »

I don't know if views are a good measure of anything anymore.

I find that narrative control from position of authority is much more interesting.

So, on Twitter I have a very small following(~470 followers) and rarely anyone interacts with me but I also have a large-ish account on a prominent but relatively obscure Turkish social media website Eksi Sozluk with even less followers but that website has strict account creation procedures(it can take years to have your account accepted and your posts becoming public) and as a result it is viewed as a "reference" since spam floods are harder to organise as you will lose your hard earned account and I'm able to stir public discussions in Twitter and Reddit by posting on this relatively obscure website because people will often check what are the opinions and arguments on the matter in Eksi Sozluk.

It's known that ad agencies are astroturfing the place and offering people money to post but because it's a "prestige" place you don't see blatant spam. They will have to construct a compelling argument even if it's an ad or political campaign position, so it's still a valuable content. A well structured discussion on Eksi Sozluk is capable to stir quite an engagement on other social media platforms and people will fight their flamewars using the arguments taken straight from Eksi Sozluk.

Re: Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media

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Post by strogonoff »

weinzierl wrote: post #16

I find it interesting, that social media and messaging apps are kind of thrown into one pot increasingly. My mental model has always been like: - Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon - Slack, Discord, Zulip, IRC - WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Matrix - Zoom, Teams, Jitsi With mass communication to individual communication from top to bottom (and increasing freedom roughly from left to right). It seems these distinctions get blur…

Have to say, this is not a bad way to break down today’s social media/messaging along two axes.
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