If you have read my posts on Mastodon and Twitter, you can recall me talking about not getting engagement on posts and having followers who never interact with your content. Given that, is there any point to having a social media presence as an author?   I’m confident Mastodon and Twitter have brought some sales to my books, but not enough to make a decent living. I never had a social media post lead to $1000 in sales. I also never had a post lead to a surge in views on my bl

I joined Mastodon Social in June 2021. At the time, I was looking for alternatives to Twitter where I could promote my work. Mastodon fascinated me with its open-source platform and how anyone can make their own servers. I settled with Mastodon Social because it had the most users and was the main official server.   I liked how you had more characters than Twitter and how there was no annoying algorithm that pushed irrelevant things in my feed. However, there was no way to ch

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