Post #2028782
2026-03-31 16:07 UTC
@boggo @nnenov indeed - but think back to the experience when you first joined - how did you find the first people to follow and engage with?
It certainly isn't impossible - and there are many ways to make it work - but my point is that many people bounce off any new "social" platform if they can't find that "hook" the first couple of times they try that platform out.
This is why various platforms have suggested profiles to follow or have algorithmic feeds esp for users without a "real" feed
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@Rycaut@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 16:10
@boggo @nnenov and to be clear - I'm not a big fan of either approach (Twitter back in the day had suggested profiles - and friends who got put on that list rapidly grew their followers counts - I wasn't on such lists and my Twitter followers stabilized at around 3000 or so relatively early and never grew much beyond that And I strongly dislike the algorithmic slop of the "feed" in platforms like FB where most of what gets shown me there isn't from my real friends of even groups I have joined