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sabreW4K3 ,
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Are you using hashtags?

dch82 OP ,

Yep! I’ve noticed that using multiple hashtags does produce results.

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@fedia.io avatar

No.

Mastodon mindlessly copies big "horizontal" social network services, but they rely on algorithms a lot. Without algorithms, I think that platforms with categories and communities are better. That's why before the major social networks, forums were quite popular for discussions.

aasatru ,
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I had a bit of a slow start on Mastodon, but after sticking with it for a while it's now by far the best social media experience I've ever had. I follow less than 200 people, not all of them active, but their posts along with the content they boost provides a much more interesting feed for me than any algorithm ever has.

And when I post something I've put work into, it's boosted by those interested and reaches far more relevant people than I've ever reached on other networks. And people trust it to be interesting because it's boosted by someone they trust, rather than some faceless algorithm.

That said, the cost of entry is indeed a bit high.

Tywele ,

This is why I like Bluesky more. The ability to create your own feed or follow feeds created by others makes it much easier to find content you want to see and even enables you to create something like a community by creating a feed that only aggregates posts that contains a certain hashtag or any other symbol or word or emoji.

Quicky ,

You can follow hashtags in Mastodon tbf

Navigator ,
@Navigator@jlai.lu avatar

Why would you want to be discovered?

Depending on the answer a lot of things can be done IMO.

dch82 OP ,

I want to be able to engage with the community, even if it is just a couple of replies.

nfsm ,

Keep replying, be civil and people will engage with you. Most of us switched to Mastodon to avoid engagement algorithms

Navigator ,
@Navigator@jlai.lu avatar

Well I’d say just use popular hastags related to your posts and reply to other people.

I’m on Mastodon since 2017 and it will build slowly as you will get much more favs than direct replies anyway.

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