Post by @dredmorbius@toot.cat

2022-11-21 23:09 UTC

@ifixcoinops@mstdn.social I boost similarly, even (or especially) if I'm not part of that culture. Finding your peeps is hard. I encourage hashtags, as others have noted. AND: I strongly encourage people to Be The Content They'd Like to See. If you're looking for gerbil enthusiasts and aren't finding any, start posting gerbil enthusiast content, and hashtag it. Eventually if others come, they'll find you, and you will be their answer to the question you first asked.

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@gorfram@libretooth.gr 2022-11-22 06:13

@dredmorbius@toot.cat @ifixcoinops@mstdn.social It feels a little weird, tbh, to be boosting stuff that really isn't my bag: "Oh, the Moroccan croquet competition circuit? Sure, I'll boost that." But somewhere out there is another Moroccan croquet enthusiast, & those people need to find each other.

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@dredmorbius@toot.cat 2022-11-22 21:28

Addenda to my earlier: one of the quiet joys of watching the present Mastodon influx has been a steady stream of people boosting and faving older toots of mine. Some of those are threaded under my pinned "Administrivia" post (or other pins), but many are not. I won't claim it's common that people will do this, but some do, and those are probably the peeps you're looking for in the first place. It reinforces the "be the change" concept. @ifixcoinops@mstdn.social

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