Also, something totally weird, despite posting 7000 times over 15 years, I’ve only got 15 people who follow me on Tumblr!
I was curious when I looked up my profile on nostr.band how many followers I’ve got here vs twitter and on the fediverse.
https://nostr.band/npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240
Twitter - 17 years - 18.5k followers
Mastodon - 6 years - 2.6k followers
Scuttlebutt - 5 years - 1.1k followers
Nostr - 5 months - 3.1k followers
BlueSky - 2 Months - 329 followers
Now, of course, the number of followers doesn’t correlate to engagement or who’s actually seeing my posts. And the line between the Fediverse and Nostr is blurry because of gateways. I follow nostr folks on my mastodon account and fediverse folks in Nostr.
At the moment I see lots of engagement of my posts on the fediverse, nostr, and bluesky. I don’t see much on Scuttlebutt or Twitter any more.
Discussion
Likely because you’re not a hip teenager who posts edgy gifs (I haven’t seen your tumblr though so I might be totally wrong)
Yes, I’m not. My kids, who are teenagers, think Tumblr is awesome…. They discovered it about 6 months ago and told me how excited they were about it. I laughed and pointed out I’ve been on Tumblr since before they were born… they promptly blocked me. Which, I think is fine, they deserve their privacy online too.
One kid uses discord as their primary chat platform and the other uses telegram. They use signal to talk to the parents.
Lol 😆