Ok, #TwitterMigration folks, I see a lot of people asking, "How do I find people on other servers on #Mastodon or the #fediverse.
Well, here's my #Feditip of how I went from 1 person alone on robot.rodeo to having almost 2,000 interesting people to follow in about 8 months...
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1. Go to joinmastodon.com and look for servers with topics that interest you, or that have a lot of users. Go to those servers home pages and then follow the admin. That admin will likely boost interesting posts on that server, and as you follow people, your social graph will naturally expand into that server.
2. Go to search.twitter.com and run a search for "Mastodon." You'll find lots and lots of people posting links to their Mastodon profile. Follow anyone that interests you.
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@mike - I have a 1 user Mastodon server (I have very low networking ambitions and it just scratches an itch), but as one word of warning on this: I followed just 8 accounts and over a two day period my server instance had pulled and cached over a GB of data. While by itself that isn't a concern and is a small amount, from a scaling perspective it was a bit foreboding and has given me pause on follows.
Just wanted to mention this so that people keep an eye if they decide to go solo.
Mike McHargue
Dennis W. Forbes