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How to get discovered on Mastodon? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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From my experience on Mastodon, it is almost impossible to be found.

Some of my toots feel like shouting into a void.

Is there anyway around this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is twitter advice, but I assume it works.

I had about 10k followers and about 100 likes per tweet in my heyday - but had pretty much left about a year before elon took over, and fully left when he did.

It was a lot of work with little reward, but it was fun.

Post actually engaging content for your niche on a regular schedule, preferably more often than twice a day
you can maybe stretch to two niches on an account but likely you just want one
engage primarily with people in that niche
get to know them, build an online friendship
get into group dms or chats with multiple people in the same niche
nepotistically retweet each others stuff, publically respond favorably to it
unless you have a really interesting life, keep your real life out of it and focus on your niche
expect this process to be a committed 12 month process - so that's at least 1000 posts, all should be high quality enough to warrant engagement.