Hello, I am a person who has only used thread based “social media” their whole life. I never liked platforms such as twitter and instagram and preferred aggregators like reddit, and nowadays, lemmy.

I tried joining twitter once, failed, closed my account and went back to reddit. Same with instagram. Kind of glad that I did not use them.

I recently created an instagram account because my friends use it’s messaging feature. And because my generation uses instagram handles like phone numbers of old (i am 20).

I really want an active mastodon account. There are really cool people there and there are some thoughts I can’t express with the “forum format”.

I mostly repost cool stuff I see, but even after joining a reasonable amount of discourse, and trying not to look like a bot, I am yet to get a workable amount of social circle. Whereas I easily fit into places like lemmy.

what am i doing wrong

edit: Just realized the title looks like a “I wanna be famous” post. It really is not

My profile: https://toot.community/@yogurtwrong

  • Brian@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I agree it’s definitely worth following hashtags liberally for things you’re interested in. Your feed should really open up with that.

    But it’s also worth doing a longish #introduction post, adding hashtags of things you like and pinning that to your profile. You might already have done that but you can always do a fresh one. People will also boost introduction posts so that might get your profile out there more.

    I have an introduction pinned on my profile if it helps: https://beige.party/@brian

    • ProfThadBach@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I do not understand hashtags. My GF has tried to explain it to me and I just don’t get it. Maybe I am too old.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        You know what tags are, right? It’s a tag, denoted with the hash symbol.

        • Brian@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Exactly this, and the other benefit of hashtags (at least on some apps for Mastodon) is that you can mute them. So, if you’re following someone whose posts you enjoy, except their posts about #rugby, you can mute those posts and not see any of them. I find it a really great way to keep my feed as only those things I’d prefer to see.