Social media is like the ancient digital pet Tamagotchi. You have to feed and tend to it constantly and yet rarely get anything out of it.

In the coming days, I will spring-clean my account, delete old posts and replies, after which I will take some time to think about my future strategy.

This is by no means to say that any of you Mastodonians are causing my frustration. It is a structural dilemma. And it is platform independent:

Well over 700 people follow me on Mastodon, close to 80 on Instagram — and yet, on *both* platforms hardly *any* of my posts gets more than five to ten reactions of *any* kind, and rarely any comments at all.

One of the main reasons, as far as I can tell, is that social media applications are designed with the intent to distract people with ever more, more, more input so as to keep them glued to the screen.

Although this is not the idea behind Mastodon in particular and the fediverse in general, most people are used to this behaviour, hence replicate it here, too.

Also, it seems to me that people talk more and listen less these days.

Trying to gather a following to support my music seems impossible at this point.

#SocialMedia #Instagram #Mastodon #Fediverse #MusicPromotion #SelfPromotion #Distraction #StolenFocus #TooMuchInput

Yesterday we ended up going to #ikea. Needed some small things, thought it would be nice to go #shopping on a Saturday.

Please remind me NEVER to go to IKEA on Saturday ever again. I’ll be spending all day today in recovery.

#TooMuchInput #IHateKids #sardines #screaming #trauma