John Carlos Baez on Nostr: This was one of my least popular posts on Mastodon. I was trying to figure out ...
This was one of my least popular posts on Mastodon. I was trying to figure out whether it's that 1) people don't read me for news about biology, 2) they were just grossed out, or 3) something else.
But today I saw that my similar post on Bluesky was one of my most popular there so far!
This makes me like Mastodon all the more.
(Some good people I followed here have moved to Bluesky, so I'm trying it - but so far it's mainly good for discovering the latest outrage that people are ineffectually yelling about. I *do* like to know about these outrages - political news I may not have noticed - but it takes just a couple minutes a day, no lengthy doomscrolling required. I like Mastodon because my posts, no matter how serious and/or unpopular, get at least bit of serious engagement. E.g. for this post, of mine @llewelly replied "hm. Pelophylax nigromaculatus is native to Eurasia, so I guess this is great news for Europe, but since it's not native to North America, I don't think it makes much difference to the separate invasive hornet issues in North America." That's *my* kind of social media.)
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