Mastodawn

Apparently there’s another influx of new folks here, so I guess I should give my best tidbit of advice:

You have to really actively seek out people to follow here, much more than you’re used to — and until you do, this place will feel •dead•. Cool stuff isn’t just going to show up. You won’t get many helpful suggestions. No tech giant marketing dept is spending millions to draw you in. It’s going to be •work•. It’s kind of a drag, tbh.

But: your people are out there!! You just have work to seek them out, one account at a time.

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Paul Cantrell Oct 11

A thing I did when I was new to find good accounts to follow:

Whenever I saw a post I liked, I didn’t just follow that person. I looked at (1) who they were boosting in their timeline and (2) who •they• were following, so that each new good follow might turn into 5 or 10 new follows.

A week or two of that really helped me find my way to the communities I was looking for.

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Lee 🏖️Oct 11

@inthehands I would also suggest making use of the Lists feature, otherwise you may end up following hundreds if not thousands of people but a lot of good posts will just get buried in your timeline/feed.

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Ken Butler

@beachcomber @inthehands I have a list called "peeps" of people I want to make sure I don't miss anything from. But you can certainly have a number of lists categorized any way you want.