Attention, #Fediverse.
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football 
, #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.@lonelyboy1977 I guess I do some of that, at random intervals.
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.@lonelyboy1977 Hello! I am a very irregular poster / tooter but many of my posts or boosts will be Fantasy, SciFi, Publishing, Reading related - especially Terry Pratchett and Discworld. Hope the building of your timeline goes well. I echo the advice on hashtag following - I see a lot of nice content from people I don't follow due to a plethora of broad and niche hashtags I follow.
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.@lonelyboy1977 I don't write much, but some of your subjects are also on my interest list. What I found quite early on was that following a number of hashtags will fill up your feed quite quickly. Keep an eye out for boosted posts that are not normally seen on your server and follow those accounts.
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.@lonelyboy1977 I share brief reviews of films with #WomenCreatingMayhem here https://mastodon.ie/@sabrinadent/111994286758842758 and I talk about books and scifi (and Murderbot)
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.@lonelyboy1977 @BobDendry
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.@lonelyboy1977 Are you following those hashtags? You should be drowning in toots?
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a corollary tip: another good reason to click your own #hashtags is to confirm the popular definition matches your own.
@teledyn @lonelyboy1977 You can 'follow' those hashtags to supplement your feed, as well as add them to your profile to make it easier for other users to find you.
Part of the allure of this platform is not being 'force fed' content by algorithms and paid advertising. This is at the cost of curation through adding follows, etc.
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.Hello, I do some of those things. Retro/scifi/linux mostly. Check my history just in case I post stuff you hate before you follow.
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Attention, #Fediverse. My Mastodon experience is like being alone in a graveyard, so I need help to improve the quality of my home feed, and increase engagement with other users.
If you regularly post about #AudioDramas, #Books, #Cinema, #CreativeWriting, #Cricket
, #Fantasy, #Films, #Football , #Linux, #Music, #Podcasts, #Publishing, #Reading, #RetroGaming, #ScienceFiction, #TV, or #Writing, please reply to this post so I can follow and engage with you.Check out @ElyseMGrasso , who posts and boosts a lot of great stuff re. SFF and science. @lonelyboy1977
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@lonelyboy1977 Are you following those hashtags? You should be drowning in toots?
@dasgrueneblatt Now that I know hashtags can be followed I have added them all to my list. But some of them don't appear to be very popular, unless today is just happens to be a quiet day.
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@lonelyboy1977 @BobDendry
Follow hashtags@DismalManorGang I've started doing that and it is making a noticeable difference.
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@lonelyboy1977 I don't write much, but some of your subjects are also on my interest list. What I found quite early on was that following a number of hashtags will fill up your feed quite quickly. Keep an eye out for boosted posts that are not normally seen on your server and follow those accounts.
@Careerfromhome Thanks for the tip about following hashtags, it has made a noticeable difference already.
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@lonelyboy1977 A tip: You can actually follow those hashtags like you would follow a user. Then anytime someone uses that hashtag, it would show up in your home feed. You can then follow specific users if you want to see their other posts.
@fskornia A lot of people have given my the tip about following hashtags and it has definitely made a difference already.
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a corollary tip: another good reason to click your own #hashtags is to confirm the popular definition matches your own.
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@teledyn @lonelyboy1977 You can 'follow' those hashtags to supplement your feed, as well as add them to your profile to make it easier for other users to find you.
Part of the allure of this platform is not being 'force fed' content by algorithms and paid advertising. This is at the cost of curation through adding follows, etc.
Very important: we are the only algorithm.
When you 'boost' you send the post downstream to your audience; if you don't, the post stops at you and depends now on others. If no one boosts, it sits, sadly alone and unread, quietly awaiting a hashtag call that may never come
When you 'like' you are only telling the author you liked it. Many turn off their post popularity stats and depend on actual human connections to gauge their success
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Check out @ElyseMGrasso , who posts and boosts a lot of great stuff re. SFF and science. @lonelyboy1977
@clew Done! Thanks for the suggestion.
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@teledyn @lonelyboy1977 You can 'follow' those hashtags to supplement your feed, as well as add them to your profile to make it easier for other users to find you.
Part of the allure of this platform is not being 'force fed' content by algorithms and paid advertising. This is at the cost of curation through adding follows, etc.
@camless This is the most frequently given advice I've been given so I have started following hashtags related to subjects I want to see more of in my home feed.
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Very important: we are the only algorithm.
When you 'boost' you send the post downstream to your audience; if you don't, the post stops at you and depends now on others. If no one boosts, it sits, sadly alone and unread, quietly awaiting a hashtag call that may never come
When you 'like' you are only telling the author you liked it. Many turn off their post popularity stats and depend on actual human connections to gauge their success
@teledyn Thanks for highlighting this. I wish I had asked for advice much sooner.
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@teledyn Thanks for highlighting this. I wish I had asked for advice much sooner.
#Fediverse doesn't have a big marketing machine and bookstores aren't much help, but fortunately we have @FediTips and our own enthusiasm to make it work
