Commission a #portrait for you or your pet or family. Mother’s Day is coming up and I’m sure a portrait of her children, pets, or grandchildren would be well loved and appreciated. A special gift & you can support a living #Canadian #artist
You can also help me paint by donating here:
https://ko-fi.com/JoBlakely
#boosts appreciated

#mothersday #pet #painting #fineart #Canada #buyCanadian #buyArt
#disabledArtist #disability #art #mastoart #dogs #cats #artwork
#boost please!

Probably TMI but here's a draft flowchart of what goes through my brain when I'm considering whether to boost an image. Not included but of course important: (1) Is image made by a human? (2) Is there something in the body of the text that's mildly interesting? (3) Is account an actual person active on the platform? (4) Are number of hashtags in Goldilocks zone? #boosts #AltText #copyright #photography #accessibility #boosting #CreativeCommons

#AskFedi

Ich suche nach einer Möglichkeit meine eigenen #Boosts aus meiner Masto TL raus zu filtern - weiß da wer was?
Und nein - ein Filter mit meinem Namen tut's nicht.
Manchmal muß ich einfach viel Boosten wg. wichtig und so.

If you get #likes but no #boosts, have a look at the #AltText for your images.

There is none?

Well #Mastodon I’ve been thinking about this and I have been considering my types of #boosts. Which do you use most (you should be able to vote for more than one) and if you want to comment on why (or any other sporadic or entertaining thoughts) please do. #PleaseBoost (obv)

There are days when I clearly #boost too much because I think it might interest others.
Tip: If someone boosts too much, you don't need to mute that person. You can click on the 3 dots at the top of each profile and select ‘hide boosts from XY’. Then you will only read what the persons babble themselves.

Does anyone here have experience with the #azure cognitive services #api in the browser client? I'm getting an unexplainable #websocket error 1006 that's only happening to my user in certain circumstances, and the reason is `undefined`

I'm confident it's not a bad key, because the same code and deployment works for another user.

#boosts welcome, #help please! This is for a #FOSS accessibility project.

A #tool that I use to keep my #work organized. It's different than most #taskmanagers.

By the way: I'm the creator and today is #launchday

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/thennext
Direct link: https://www.thennext.com

I would love some #boosts for reach and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

#askfedi Good people: We all dislike #LLM (so-called #AI) heartily. Is there anything a lowly single-user #Mastodon admin can do to deter or at least disencourage the pest, without too much effort or CPU power? All suggestions and #boosts welcome.

Note: I don't object to any of the current ways of hindering or even destroying LLMs, but I don't have a lot of computing resources to spare. I just want ChatGPT etc. off here.

Is there a way in (Glitch-flavoured) Mastodon to hide all boosts from my timeline?

I do follow a few people whose boosts are actually interesting (and not overdone), but the vast majority of boosts are just spam clogging my timeline, and I'm getting tired of hiding boosts from one user at a time.

(Also, fellow fedizens, please stop overboosting. A boost is not a "like.")

I noticed my recent posts say "1 boost" but when I look to see who boosted them, it says there's no boosts. I never got a notification for them. What could be causing that?

(Will it happen to this post?)

edit: well no boost on this one yet... it looks like it's my #Ideon posts. I use a bunch of hashtags on those, maybe one is getting picked up by a bot?

Here's why your #boosts matter so much on the #Fediverse:

There is no algorithm here. Nothing is going to insert #content into your #timeline that an algorithm thinks you might be interested in.

Your timeline consists solely of the content from the people you #follow, and the content they #boost.

No boosts and you will never find out about that cool artist that started posting their artwork. You will never find out about the photographer that just joined a Pixelfed instance and is sharing their amazing photos.

Likes don't show up in the timelines of the accounts that follow you.

The only way for people to find new and cool content and accounts to follow is by you and I #boosting their content.

Hey Folks!

I am opening of a Ko-Fi account to be able to fund my publishing needs and my personal training cerification. If you have some to spare please donate.

Join me on this adventure, and let's turn dreams into reality!

Thank yous! #Boosts are appreciated. #mastodon

https://ko-fi.com/itskensanchez

Now that @heiseonline@social.heise.de is about to make changes that are likely to have an impact on the number on visits via #Mastodon (deactivation of automatic boosts), it's time for my third summary:

https://social.heise.de/@mho/110354256288090157

To be honest, I don't see a clear trend overall: While the number of followers continues to rise and will soon crack 50,000 visits via #Mastodon have just stopped the downward trend. On the other hand, #Twitter has recently seen an even sharper decline.

If you only take the posts of @heiseonline@social.heise.de directly, then the tendency is again clearer (Twitter falls more than Mastodon), but with the other accounts from us (@heisec@social.heise.de, @heiseautos@social.heise.de etc.) it is all over the place (of course with significantly lower absolute numbers): Sometimes #Twitter is in front, sometimes #Mastodon, sometimes one rises, sometimes it falls. Individual articles still have too great an influence on such small accounts.

When they have to find find their audience on their own now, I expect this to change to the disadvantage of Mastodon.

The number of interactions on #Mastodon, on the other hand, is continuously decreasing, which is of course not so nice. Especially against the background that since it posts mostly automatically, many more links are shared on Mastodon in total: So there are many more posts to interact with. Also the number of followers is increasing.

However, I must write that I can only count #Likes and #Boosts, it's possible that the picture would look different if I could count comments, too.

Also interesting the distribution of visits over time via both platforms: Via #Mastodon 74% of the visits come on the first day (on Twitter its just 61%). However, Twitter catches up on the second day, after which its 88% (Mastodon) vs. 82%. After four days visits over #Mastodon amount only to 7%, on Twitter it's 12%. Seems to show, that posts mostly won't go viral here, but it might have an influence that I only count posts via the posts from @heiseonline@social.heise.de, but all visits via Twitter.

Maybe you can summarize it like this: #Mastodon is not really growing at the moment (at least in German-speaking countries), but it is not shrinking either. The usage remains stable.
With #Twitter, on the other hand, I would say that it looks like a decline again. There is currently a small #Twitter migration from influencers to #BlueSky. But it's still too early for anything definitive:

What do you think? What could I still look for, what would you like to know? Apart from the absolute numbers, of course .

(I analyzed more than 6800 news articles, that were shared on #Mastodon, more than 630 of them were liked plus boosted more than 50 times each. On #Twitter I still find only 4 articles with more than 50 such interactions.)

I wrote my first summary of @heiseonline@social.heise.de on #Mastodon almost two months ago: Time for an update.

One thing in advance, even if it has become noticeably quieter here in the #Fediverse, the numbers remain pretty stable: Visits via Mastodon are still slightly below that via #Twitter, but as a reminder, I can only compare visits generated via our accounts on #Mastodon with all visits over #Twitter. So the actual numbers are even closer together. (@heiseonline@social.heise.de on Twitter has 246.000 Followers, on Mastodon it's 45.500)

On the first graph I have summed up the weekly entries via Mastodon vs. Twitter since the #Mastodon account went live at the beginning of November. The steady growth is partly due to the fact that only articles shared both on Mastodon and Twitter are included, and their number has increased. Overall, more visits come via Mastodon than via #Bing or #Xing.

The engagement (#boosts plus #likes, no #comments) with posts of @heiseonline@social.heise.de stagnates, but remains significantly above that on Twitter. I find only four posts from heise-accounts on Twitter in this time that have been shared at least 50 times, on Mastodon it's a whole 125 (!). At the same time, nothing really goes #viral on #Mastodon, the upward swings of visits are significantly higher on Twitter.

A new initiative that shows noticeable effects is #Verpasstodon (something like "missed-o-don"): Under this hashtag @heiseonline@social.heise.de re-shares on weekends the most clicked articles of the past week. And they get klicked noticeably again.
There is no criticism directed at the practice, the hashtag can be muted without missing anything else.

Despite such ideas, 89% of the visits via #Mastodon come on the first two days vs. 81% over Twitter.

A few more numbers: In total, @heiseonline@social.heise.de has more than 122,000 interactions (#Boosts and #Likes, overview in the second image "Interaktionen"), per article that's an average of more than 26. About 4700 articles were shared, more than 500 of them have more than 50 interactions. More than 1000 each:
https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109550376533582612
https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109670205634915816

Follower numbers of @heiseonline@social.heise.de grow very slowly, but the speed has increased since the Twitter account has a link to the Mastodon-account. @heiseonline@social.heise.de is now the largest German-language media-account, slightly in front of @tazgetroete@mastodon.social.
In the USA, there is a larger one with @ProPublica@newsie.social, but a few regional media are particularly active (#Newstodon).

The third picture shows visits via Mastodon and Twitter over the last 80 days.

Hope this is interesting for english-speaking accounts, too:
@fediversereport@mastodon.social @fediverseobserver@fediverse.one @fediversenews@venera.social @atomicpoet@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social

Allez, vu qu'il y a pas de nouvelles personnes par ici, un petit sondage rapide pour voir si ça vaut le coup que je me fende d'un petit thread #sensibilisation #vulgarisation

(pas plus de 4 choix possibles sur mamot.fr du coup le sondage est légèrement tendancieux )

#boosts appréciés

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