Ancestors

Written by Alan Sill on 2024-12-14 at 18:14

Hmm. The buzz was that there would be much more interactivity on Bsky than on Mastodon. Having been there a couple of weeks with a good list of followed accounts and followers, I'm not seeing it. There is more in the way of "broadcast" posts and news re-posts, and more organizations, but the personal interaction level seems quite similar to here. (YMMV.)

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Toot

Written by Alan Sill on 2024-12-14 at 18:17

My personal opinion (not backed up by anything more than logic and the base information) is that those who use referrer headers to identify sources of visits to their blogs etc. have missed the point that Mastodon doesn't by default include such headers, hence their attempts to measure engagement by platform were based on wrong assumptions. I know of several prominent posters of otherwise useful stuff on various platforms who have done such comparisons and made this exact mistake. (Again, YMMV.)

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Descendants

Written by Jan on 2024-12-14 at 18:25

@AlanSill With the next Mastodon release admins can activate referrers: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33214

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Written by Alan Sill on 2024-12-14 at 18:30

@jan That may help, but unless it becomes universal, much point-of-origin information will be missed (by those who care about such things).

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Written by Jan on 2024-12-14 at 18:36

@AlanSill There is a caveat, on centralised social networks you will see one incoming link, on Mastodon/Fediverse a link for each instance. I doubt the web analytics tools can aggregate all Fediverse links.

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