If you want to make your account and posts more discoverable:

-Fill in your profile, include website if you have one (with https:// at start)
-Describe yourself in first line of profile, this is shared by discovery systems
-Follow people
-Write public #Introduction, attach photos/audio/video if relevant
-Pin introduction to profile
-Use hashtags in posts
-Describe images
-On server, go to Edit Profile > Suggest Account To Others, tick box & save changes

More details at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-followers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

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it won’t let me edit my profile. Every time I click the edit button it closes the app.

@josie11

Hmm... that sounds like a bug. You might want to try logging in through your server's website? For you that would be https://mstdn.social

Does edit profile ever work on your app?

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@feditips thanks I’ll give that a try.