Something I've noticed while on book tour for the past couple of weeks is that Mastodon is a really good way to let people know about bookstore events. So many people I've met on the road have told me that they found out about my book tour from me or other folks on the fedi. I think it's partly because so many book-loving people are on Mastodon. But also if you compare Mastodon to places like Bluesky or Insta, the community here has a higher percentage of actual humans vs. bots or operatives.
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@Shanmonster I definitely have more online engagement on Bsky. But I rarely meet people at my events who say "I came because I saw it on Bluesky." They do say it about Mastodon.
@annaleen @Shanmonster this place is far more social, in my experience
@ricci @annaleen @Shanmonster One of the things about “fediverse” vs. At least the Bluesky flavour of ATmosphere is that we glom together in either geolocal or topical communities first, and the “everybody in the stadium crowd” of bsky is just streams of individuals who may connect, but seem to be broadcasting in parallel on the same firehose. It does seem to me that once an instance like wandering.shop has a digital-meatspace connectivity started, people go out to events they hear about.
And that means any given invite to a real-life event will probably result in more people showing up in real life. Because there is just a higher density of people here. More people per hundred accounts?
All this makes me think about how weird it is on most other platforms, where there is a lower person to account ratio.
I hope you bring this up to some of the lovely people that made accounts, now gone dormant, on wondering.shop, who presumably moved to Bluesky
I have bookshelves filled with own-voices science fiction and fantasy I discovered through the network of LGBTQ and POC authors in the last few years of pre-buyout Twitter
I really miss that.
@annaleen FWIW, I get a lot more people sharing links to my stories on BlueSky than I do here. I guess it depends how many authors/readers you follow.