If you're new here, and considering whether this space could become a social home for you:
Many of us have been here for a few years, since well before Threads, BlueSky, Spoutible, Post, Hive, Pebble, Cohost, Blurble, Blarble and Blorble.
We've made it through waves of user migrations, claims of imminent demise, and tech bros telling us we're doing it all wrong.
Years later, we're still here. Ad-free. Non-profit. Open source. Millions strong.
Stay a while. You might just like it. :)
What use are you hoping to get out of it, that you're not getting?
Ah, sorry to hear. FWIW, my feed here really started boppin' once I crossed about 1,000 followed accounts or so -- it took a while, but now I have to actively tear myself away from it at times. 😅
Being able to follow hashtags was another game-changer, I discover a lot of stuff that way.
It does help, of course, that my interests align well with fedi's core demographic -- e.g., open source, AI, anti-capitalism, STEM, and gorgeous photography. ;-)
Definitely recommend hashtags to future arts desk posts -- it was less important on Twitter, but here it really makes a difference, especially with the hashtag-follow feature.
If you add "[email protected]" with a @ in front as well (not doing that to avoid triggering it), a post will be boosted to the 1K members of that group -- another good way to get reach, and they all signed up for it by following that account so it's not considered spammy :)
Erik Moeller
David Nice