This happened to me recently. I posted a link to my Mastodon profile on Facebook to let followers know that I don’t intend to keep using Facebook for music, and it got a total engagement of 2 viewers.

As a test, I posted a dumb meme. ~10k engagement. Facebook intentionally lowers visibility of outside links.

People actually use threads?

I assumed everyone had moved on to mastodon/bluesky or crawled back to xitter.

God even here on Lemmy.

I share links, relevant links, in comments.

They just go on, people say thanks.

I share some links on Reddit, and Automod deletes it as "spam". Also because Reddit seems to hate out going links, which is unexpected given what it is.

I like the old days when I used the landline telephone mounted on the wall. I never once worried about whether or not someone liked my conversation after I hung up.

ITT: People discovering the "algorithms" aren't neutral or objective in any way.
Business is business. I remember reading about this shit some 15 years ago on Reddit and other sites/ forums.

Link to the Mastodon post in question: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116412909768305794

The last thing I posted to facebook was included a link to my own website, and it got buried into oblivion. It was about 5% of the usual response. I suspected the exact same thing.

I'm kind of sad that I can't look at the global feed on Mastodon Social anymore. If I'm not already following others, I don't really know what I can do on there but see some news links and brooding angsty posts from mostly the same handful of already popular users in Trending.

Browsing the global feed kind of felt like this.

This guy is a political influencer, of course he will measure Mastodon’s worth based on engagement metrics.

Or don't use either. Problem solved.

Hate to break it to him. But, the post sucks. It's bland. It's a thumbs up next to an article hyperlink. Throw some spice and humor on it:

"Ayyy, we might get a Back to the Future reboot."

Meanwhile Mastodon burying posts from poster without a massive follower base:

Exactly! Modlogs are incredible!

Wow, this older post hits me differently today after Rimu decided to start censoring votes by default in PieFed software (https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/2200155/improvement-for-the-vote-quota-implementation).

Keeping the Fediverse Algorithm-free is super hard work, which never ends and can be encroached upon for the best & most well-meaning of reasons.