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Good morning. After telling you yesterday that I wanted to stop publishing on Mastodon, I received many messages from you all which made me reconsider my decision.

For now, I will keep publishing.

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although we don't necessarily reply or like posts a whole lot, we are here following your posts. Please stay.
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Thank you! Although i could understand your arguments, mastodon is small compared to x, telegram and some other platforms. But mastodon is a sympathetic platform compared to the others.
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Very glad to hear that. 🙂 Here is no like button and less interaction than elsewhere, but also no company, which has an interest in artificially increasing your follower count. Some news outlets came to the conclusion, that although they have much less followers on Mastodon, they get similar or more clicks from here.
Tato položka byla upravena (4 days ago)
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Thank you for reconsidering and staying on Mastodon.
You are a very valuable contribution for the support of Ukraine.
I did not see your post from yesterday until this morning.
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I don’t understand you. Why don’t you just use a tool like @bufferapp to crosspost, but prefer to walk away and frustrate your audience?
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This is so amateurish. Same as you still bearing solely the Twitter sign in your Mastodon background picture.
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Thank you. I have read your posts here with much interest, but I have seldom interacted with you because I have no useful information of my own to add, to favourite/like posts about the war seems wrong, and to boost from an account about a nature reserve would be inappropriate. But I appreciate your presence here, and will continue to read all of your informative posts. Perhaps also favourite them to show that I have done so.
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Thank you, I just saw your messages yesterday, and had forgotten about the person and just treated it as an automated news feed, sorry.

I do like to see your posts, and I'll try better to remember that positive interaction is good for people.

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I’m one of the people reading your updates daily here, though I never interacted. I’ll get better at boosting your posts.
Tato položka byla upravena (4 days ago)
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I missed that announcement yesterday, but I’m glad you chose to stay. I don’t intend to invest significant time in any of the centrally controlled X alternatives, so I would have missed your reports.
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Thanks! I follow and read your posts on Mastodon daily. Your insight will be critical for understanding the impact of the Trump administration on the war going forward.
Tato položka byla upravena (4 days ago)
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Right on! Appreciate your good work, people like you in a place like mastodon are required in a time like this!!
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that is great! And to all appreciaters, show your appreciation by hitting the favirite button more often 😀
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Thank you!

Many of us actively choose to be here regardless of whether we would have more followers (more bots* … ?) somewhere else - simply recognizing that this is the only social media that we can trust to survive various regimes.

*) I help moderate another largeish Mastodon instance. We're diligent in suspending bots/trolls at signup - something I doubt a commerical platform that wants to brag about the numbers of user do ...

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please do! I have no intent to use other platforms. There might not be any statistics with Mastodon but your posts are being read by many of us.
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Because of how Mastodon is structured, it is more difficult to understand the actual reach of your posts. For example you receive much much less likes because in Mastodon they don't do much.

If you want to understand your reach, try to publish a poll, so from the interaction you'll see how your reach is actually larger than you may think.

Of course the Fediverse is also smaller than other social networks, so you'll have less reach also because of this.

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Thanks for continuing! I find your posts interesting to read and they contain good information about what is happening in Ukraine.
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I follow your posts daily. Though I rarely interact, that's true.
Sorry, but keep the great job !!!
I'll try react more often 😉
Thanks for your hard work.
Tato položka byla upravena (3 days ago)
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I think in these times it is especially important to use open source decentralized platforms like mastodon. i stopped visiting X the day musk bought it and seeing the development i think it was a good choice. it is important not to stack all eggs in one basket, as we see currently with trump as well. thanks for staying here and thanks for your work.