Hello, I am a person who has only used thread based “social media” their whole life. I never liked platforms such as twitter and instagram and preferred aggregators like reddit, and nowadays, lemmy.
I tried joining twitter once, failed, closed my account and went back to reddit. Same with instagram. Kind of glad that I did not use them.
I recently created an instagram account because my friends use it’s messaging feature. And because my generation uses instagram handles like phone numbers of old (i am 20).
I really want an active mastodon account. There are really cool people there and there are some thoughts I can’t express with the “forum format”.
I mostly repost cool stuff I see, but even after joining a reasonable amount of discourse, and trying not to look like a bot, I am yet to get a workable amount of social circle. Whereas I easily fit into places like lemmy.
what am i doing wrong
edit: Just realized the title looks like a “I wanna be famous” post. It really is not
My profile: https://toot.community/@yogurtwrong
I only follow people on mastodom who post original content or I know them IRL. There is no good reason to follow a random user who only repost things.
Start with following some person who posts about things you care. Sometimes respond if you think you can contribute to the topic, be nice and soon you’ll get your circle.
You can also use some tools for easier discovery of interesting people. Like my mastodon search. I sometimes use it and got few mutuals this way.
Apart from the stuff already mentioned, never stop shouting into the void about stuff that interests you or projects you’re working on. Add a few relevant hashtags so your toots can be discovered. It may take a while, but people will come. Don’t give up.
