Dawn @Dawn - 1y
Yes... 6 & 7 sort of tie together. No feedback is negative feedback when you're trying to make something happen. A lot of people show up not understanding the need to engage in order to really be seen. They just post notes & eventually give up. It doesn't help that "engagement" is a confusing set of ethics around here... I've grown to appreciate it, but if someone new doesn't understand the "societal norms", I'm sure that leads to a lot of misunderstanding about how their content/notes are being recieved. 😅
Laeserin @Laeserin - 1y
And now you have a sort of 2-5 follower hurdle to being seen, because otherwise your notes are often surpressed.
It seems like a difficult thing to convey compactly, but might help people to understand.
The welcome wagon does a decent job of mitigating that. I think low retention comes later when everyone goes back to their normal business.
The welcome wagon is mostly a myth and it's now fallen out of favor because LightX was pretending to be TikTok girls and collecting sats. When I arrived here, nobody noticed me and I had to tag people I knew from X, and reply to threads, to get the ball rolling. I think that's much more typical, and probably harder now because of WoT, since so many people won't see what you write.
