On the Fediverse you definitely get more engagement, however, some of that engagement is rather weird 😛

Just over the last 24 hours, I’ve seen at least three such engagements where people make cryptic, drive-by-remarks which either misunderstand the original post, or is completely off the point.

Since I’ve had very little engagement with people I didn’t follow on Twitter, I don’t know if this is normal or not. But it seems a little weird to me …

The one personal engagement of the ones I mentioned above was my wife getting a reply about an art project she was doing. She was doing the art for something I was working on and she mentioned it was at my request. She also mentioned that she was using a particular type of brush. She gets a response saying that she shouldn’t be dictated to as to what type of brush she uses …

We were both mystified since she didn’t say she was using the brushes at my request, nor at anybody else’s. So why the comment? Just poor reading skills? Jumping to conculsions? Or just the need to insert yourself into other people’s lives right or wrong? 😛

I have no idea … (Of course, as a disclaimer, these interactions are the exception. Most interactions here on the Fediverse have been really great and I do like being here way more than Twitter …)

@AngelaPreston Yep .. or at least, that's similar to my thoughts. I guess I expect too much of people and this kind of thing just makes me think way too much about the "why" rather than simply just shrugging it off and moving on 😛

@f Did you go check their profiles and read some of their toots?

Mission accomplished. 😜

@ethauvin That would track if they had any posts, but they didn’t 😛 Also, this particular person didn’t even have an avatar image set. I tend to disregard those anyway…

@f So you did check... Any followers?

@ethauvin Don’t remember. I checked mainly to see if they were somebody I was following or who followed me — neither. Didn’t have posts to indicate what they might be on about (or no posts were federated to my server). Just left it at that and (mostly) moved on … except of course, posting about it 😝

@f Odd. Hasn't happen to me, yet.