We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit
Please tell us that you’re not moving away from Lemmy/Mbin too. There’s a gigantic tonedeafness to asking your supporters to use centralized social media at this specific time that’s hard to accept you’re not realizing.
(quote from Proton’s mastodon.social account info - there wasn’t even a post made about it)
I agree the optics of this aren’t great, but the real question is if this higher follower count on Mastodon translates to post engagement…
My brother once bought me followers on Instagram as some kind of joke and that did exactly squat for reach as far as i could tell.
Not saying Proton bought followers on Mastodon, but I am saying followers don’t necessarily mean anything.
Mastodon peaked a couple of times but then usage dwindled because people started using Bluesky or returning to bigtech platforms because their buddies didn’t move over.
I suspect a fair amount of these mastodon subscribers are stale accounts and the Proton team just aren’t seeing the engagement they have on the other platforms.
While their bluesky is significantly higher, it’s important to note they elected to keep their threads account which has a small fraction of the interactions of either
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The math clearly shows that Mastodon is the one to cut
I agree the optics of this aren’t great, but the real question is if this higher follower count on Mastodon translates to post engagement…
My brother once bought me followers on Instagram as some kind of joke and that did exactly squat for reach as far as i could tell. Not saying Proton bought followers on Mastodon, but I am saying followers don’t necessarily mean anything.
Mastodon peaked a couple of times but then usage dwindled because people started using Bluesky or returning to bigtech platforms because their buddies didn’t move over. I suspect a fair amount of these mastodon subscribers are stale accounts and the Proton team just aren’t seeing the engagement they have on the other platforms.
They don’t make exactly the same posts between the accounts, but comparing similar posts around the same time
https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113679615854243807
31 comments 156 boosts 254 favorites
https://www.threads.net/@protonprivacy/post/DDpVjPooFxM
2 comments 2 boosts 45 likes
https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me/post/3ldnvyof5zk2u
60 comments 159 boosts 729 likes
While their bluesky is significantly higher, it’s important to note they elected to keep their threads account which has a small fraction of the interactions of either
This is a fair assessment, though isn’t all the meta crap connected?
With which I mean don’t Facebook posts sync to threads and such? I know my Instagram posts synced with Facebook when I still had Facebook.
From what I can tell they don’t have a Facebook page, I don’t believe posts sync between threads and other meta products regardless