I've just learned to follow smaller accounts with similar interest. As a celebrity follow machine, it's awful because nobody is really on there officially except for a handful of people.

Hashtags are much more important on Masto too cause without an algorithm, its one of the only ways your posts are visible to others. I find with the right combo of tags though, I can get a decent amount of interaction.

There was a good solid week where most of my attention was focused on Mastodon. I guess it all depends on what you were originally using twitter for. I guess it clicked for me cause I barely used twitter to begin with.

Maybe try just browsing the local feed or looking up hashtags of things you like, might help you find new people

Maybe a monthly/quarterly coordinated push to get people to migrate would be more effective at making it push through, rather than tiny blips of "Hey, maybe Mastodon?" on occasion.

And then whenever people inevitably try it and decide not to stay, as I did, make sure to pick up on any feedback and take it seriously. Maybe after a year it'll be a genuinely desirable alternative.

I personally think it's a messy pile of junk.

It IS too complicated tho. I consider myself pretty techy, but my Linux experience, just trying to do basic things like downloading a program, became a long chain of troubleshooting and installations of dependecies and searching online for answers.

Sadly, it got me REAL turned off Linux. I love the concept of it, but at the end of the day, I just want something that works.

Honestly, People on lemmy are outlandishly pro Linux. I will say that the primary thing that people use, Twitter, Reddit, windows, ends up working a lot better than the alternatives. I love my instance but it's downtime is like 1 nines at this point. If that. I dedicate time to check out Linux distros every year since 2012 when it stopped being my daily driver and constantly hit problems that I just do not want to deal with.

I mean for people who aren't influencers it doesn't make much sense. For influencers, even though some people hate twitter or whatever its called now it is the place with one of the largest presences/userbases around. Many influencers use that to their advantage to grow their own userbase. Some influencers can move over and maybe convert some of their audiences over but realistically you need a very big player to do it beforehand.

As a former redditor, fair.

It's a lot easier when it's a seamless transition vs a new platform. Also, it seems like the usage took a nosedive.

Too many people are just so basic they won't even consider trying anything but "mainstream". If Lemmy or Mastodon became mainstream platforms, you can bet they would come in masses because "there's where everyone's at."

Do what I did, make some new friends on mastodon. Theres a ton of great people on there :3

Formerly known as Calckey. Twitter replacement similarly to Mastodon. Also uses ActivityPub.

Using it rn, it's forked from Misskey and is in alpha rn

It feels like mastodon but they sprinkled in a few telegram features tbh.

Much better than mastodon in terms of user experience tho

Jack Dorsey's new project. Essentially a new Twitter.

It's the fediverse Lite (doesn't work with ActivityPub, it's its own protocol). It's also Twitter Lite (created by the founder of Twitter, now known as X). It's the worst of both worlds.

A worse version of ActivityPub

Discoverability of content above average? On Twitter? An I doing something wrong? The only time I end up on Twitter is when someone links to it. Following or even searching in comments is essentially not possible.

Well it's not like the Youtube comment section is where I would expect anyone to safely interact.

*requires overcoming inertia.