@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book.
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@sydneyw @pluralistic
Follow hashtags to start with: that will give you community and show you individual users to follow. And yes, you can follow hashtags here in addition to individuals.I never really did the hashtag thing.
Perhaps the first week or so to find a few people to follow.
I just started filling my timeline with some posts, I thought would interest myself and hence also people I'd like.
And then: starting to get into conversations I saw flowing by.
On Twitter, back in the day, it took me about half a year to get a bubble of 200 mutuals.
Here: A few weeks.
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
Start with hashtags that reflect your interests and follow people that post with them.
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
@sydneyw @pluralistic
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I never really did the hashtag thing.
Perhaps the first week or so to find a few people to follow.
I just started filling my timeline with some posts, I thought would interest myself and hence also people I'd like.
And then: starting to get into conversations I saw flowing by.
On Twitter, back in the day, it took me about half a year to get a bubble of 200 mutuals.
Here: A few weeks.
@mina @brunogirin @sydneyw @pluralistic Me neither.
I'm generally following a bunch of beige.party not a cultists and random people I've thought may be interesting.
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Everyone at beige.party
@PonderStibbons We serve up your Recommended Daily Allowance of silliness. @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
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@sydneyw @pluralistic
Follow hashtags to start with: that will give you community and show you individual users to follow. And yes, you can follow hashtags here in addition to individuals.@brunogirin @sydneyw @pluralistic Also, write an intro, people love to boost those and will follow you if the intro sounds interesting.
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
@sydneyw obviously the # were already mentioned. There are loads of them and they'll fill your timeline while you are figuring out who to follow and build your interactions with people.
Some of my favorite are to do with books (#bookstodon) and #gardening, #bloomscrolling, #foodforest but definitely also #carryshitolympics and #dogsofmastodon or # leaning into activist or politics. -
@PonderStibbons We serve up your Recommended Daily Allowance of silliness. @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
We're also definitely, probably not a cult.
@sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
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We're also definitely, probably not a cult.
@sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
@lizzierose There’s a real likelihood that we’re probably not a cult. @PonderStibbons @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
Mastodon doesn't push people or posts at you. So make sure your profile lists the things you want in common. Work, hobbies, political interests, etc.
Use hashtags, I can't write this often enough as hashtags help you find posts and people and let's them find you.
I never follow back if someone who starts following me has no info in their profile and no original posts.
I search every few weeks on key hashtags to check if people have joined who share my interests.
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Everyone at beige.party
@PonderStibbons @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @adhdeanasl @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine as much fun as I have on bluesky, it can't compete with the beige when it comes to community interaction
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@lizzierose There’s a real likelihood that we’re probably not a cult. @PonderStibbons @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
@adhdeanasl @lizzierose @PonderStibbons @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine The leader says we're not a cult, so we're definitely not.
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
Hi Sydney, welcome
If this is any use, I've done a guide to all the ways to discover people to follow on here: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends
There's also a guide for how to make your own account more discoverable: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-followers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
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@adhdeanasl @lizzierose @PonderStibbons @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @Lana @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine The leader says we're not a cult, so we're definitely not.
Oh thank God I thought we were a cult but if the glorious infallible leader says we're not then
@crinolinerobot @adhdeanasl @lizzierose @PonderStibbons @sydneyw @pluralistic @OutOnTheMoors @Alice @RickiTarr @geekysteven @the_etrain @kimlockhartga @talia_christine
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
@sydneyw @pluralistic I'm also quite new, and I've concluded there's a lot of activity, you just have to find the people. They're not "given" to you.
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
@sydneyw Be aware that a great deal of Xitter 'activity' is bots and trolls.
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Mastodon doesn't push people or posts at you. So make sure your profile lists the things you want in common. Work, hobbies, political interests, etc.
Use hashtags, I can't write this often enough as hashtags help you find posts and people and let's them find you.
I never follow back if someone who starts following me has no info in their profile and no original posts.
I search every few weeks on key hashtags to check if people have joined who share my interests.
@tiggy Great tips! Thanks!
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@mina @brunogirin @sydneyw @pluralistic Me neither.
I'm generally following a bunch of beige.party not a cultists and random people I've thought may be interesting.
Interesting @mina! What’s your favorite way to discover new people? Search hashtags/topics? Look at other people’s following?
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Interesting @mina! What’s your favorite way to discover new people? Search hashtags/topics? Look at other people’s following?
At the beginning, I searched for hashtags, then I checked out conversations, and if somebody wrote something I liked, I checked out the profiles, followed sometimes.
So when posts started to appear in my timeline, I checked again the conversations, got in, when I felt, I could add something, and so on. Like if you were in a pub, but not ashamed to approach people (hard to imagine, I know).
If you were on Twitter, check out if former mutuals are here. They often use the same handles.
