My Fediverse Advice:
* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.
@futurebird there are at least two tactics: Read everything that people you follow post, or just glance over the flood of posts that you can't really consume in the few hours you are awake.
When people who follow over 1,000 accounts start following me, I know they'll probably see less than 1% of my posts.
@Stefan_S_from_H @futurebird I lean toward the strategy of reading everything that the people I follow post. I curate who I follow and which of my followers I hide boosts. I currently follow 131 accounts. It is working pretty well, I am seeing a good amount of interesting things on my home timeline, although I probably can't read everything.
But I am curious how people do it that follow thousands of accounts? Do they have some kind of algorithms to surface the interesting posts.
@davidruffner @futurebird some of them only follow others to get followed back. To boost the numbers.
Then they use a list to only read the accounts they are truly interested in.
@Stefan_S_from_H @davidruffner
That was what I remember from twitter. But, I've found it to be less of the case here.
I do think the fedi could be subject to the problem some places like tumblr have where older more established accounts stop following new people once they are happy with how active their feed is ... so being new might feel isolating.
I didn't follow anyone new for a few months! I just forgot to do it. And that's not good, correcting it I see I've been missing out.
@futurebird @Stefan_S_from_H @davidruffner
> I've found it to be less of the case here.
oh I dunno about that, whenever something I post gets mildly popular, I get followed by a bunch of accounts that follow like three thousand people and have a hundred followers themselves, it's pretty easy to see what they're trying to achieve.
@noodlejetski @Stefan_S_from_H @davidruffner
I assume those are soon to be very frustrated spammers.
This place is so rough for spammers, the poor things. LOL.
@noodlejetski @futurebird @Stefan_S_from_H @davidruffner
Giving those people the benefit of the doubt, it could be that they are shy, mostly like reading and don't post much or have much to say. Though, if they've been on here six months and have 5000 posts and only a few followers, that's a different story.
@futurebird @Stefan_S_from_H @davidruffner
I tend to follow people in binges. I think when I get home from this trip I'm going to sit down and go through my followers and add a ton more. Simple and unremarkable as it is to follow and unfollow people here, for some reason it feels like an effort I have to think about.
@Mikal @Stefan_S_from_H @davidruffner
Things feel more fresh since I did it though. I would have been happy without doing it but it's nice to see new people and new topics.
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