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I just found that 95% of my blog traffic comes from the fediverse or straight search, and I would like to thank all of you who've taken a look! It is nice to be read!
That's in contrast to the quote-unquote visible spaces; less than 5% of my traffic comes from Insta or FB links.
Not what I'd have predicted, but in keeping with the quality of interactions I have had here!!!
#AmBlogging #Reading #Silences #Blogs #Sound #Soundscape #Noise #Music #Musicology
@partnumber2 Fun question, flippant answer:
What happens to a sound once it's been heard?
this week? sound simply dissipates
normally? sound transforms into chemical messengers and their pathways and moves through translation into memory
@scholar_farmer @partnumber2 This show addressed that and other questions about sound. Very cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwnIGxwVwlM
@partnumber2 @mlevel something for the long-drive watchlist, thanks!
摏 @scholar_farmer My reading of my logs is that these are various instances, pulling the link so they can get an image into that little box at the end of the post, rather than actual page reads. Sorry about that.
@alan oh well. The internet: it is what it is
@scholar_farmer The upside is that someone on each of those servers either follows you or someone who boosted your post, so at least they have a higher chance of seeing what you are putting out there.
And as you note, it's the interactions that are the real value here. It's definitely my favourite place to hang out.
@alan so can you explain that to a less fully savvy person? Is there a security thing I should do? I want to be a good netizen, but I’m also busy with life events. Advice is welcome
@scholar_farmer There's no security risk. Really it's just a matter of distinguishing between for real page views vs. "page previews". When you put a link in your post, other instances pull a copy of it up, in part to validate it, in part to see if there's a feature image it can stick into the feed. That's a good thing. The difference to something central like Facebook is they'll only pull it once, then share the image across servers in their data centre. In a federated service, each server needs to do that fetch, so we see a lot of traffic.
I have a front end to my site that blocks all sorts of stuff, particularly aimed at the AI scrapers, but also a wide swath of bad actors.
That filter explicitly allows Mastodon and it's variants so people can see my posts.
@alan That was a really helpful explanation, thank you!!!