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?
Hashtags, hashtags, hashtags.
Post stuff others will want to boost and follow you for. Engage with others in a friendly and generous manner. Have fun, there is no algorithm to game.
The notion of being “discovered” and (implied) launching an influencer career is… probably a long shot on Mastodon, where people enjoy shitposts more than celebrities.
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.
That’s why I moved to bluesky and couldn’t be happier.
A FOSS alternative but with an algorithm.
