Attention, #Fediverse.
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@lonelyboy1977 Pleased to meet you! I occasionally write about Linux, retro/vintage computing, home improvements, Ukraine, audiobooks and other weird stuff!
@saustrup Thank you for taking time out of your day to make yourself known.
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@lonelyboy1977 I also post in those categories which is why I jumped on @robyn's coat tails here.
The big thing though is make your timeline look less like you use your account only for promoting your own stuff. It turns people off and they don't dive deeper and see if you're engaging with people using replies.
@naturepunk @lonelyboy1977 @robyn That's true, although an account that does self-promotion while acknowledging replies and generally acting like there is an interested human behind it is still going to be much better received than an account that does self-promotion and doesn't engage at all.
(possibly getting a bit off track from the original point)
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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 As I mostly post in #Czech I cannot recommend following me.
What can I recommend is to search people and check their contacts. Whoever at least slightly fits your interests, follow him. Get at least 50 of them for start.
It takes a time to create a bubble here, but it definitely is worth the time.
Also - you can follow video creators as well!
I'll help you out a little:
@thelinuxexperiment_channel @elena @FediVideo @archives @sesivany @gamingonlinux @rhipratchett -
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 if you like retro, follow @ltning
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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 79.2% of all Mastodoners post about Linux.
Also since we're also all middle-aged we always discuss the good old sucky gaming days.
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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.I like cacophony at my backyard fence.
Yes, the #fediverse is designed to enable comfortable little echo chambers. But that does not make me a better #writer. It may make me a better #NicheWriter, as I am competing in a smaller pool for a more-jaded set of eyeballs.
OTOH, trying to build feeds which are #trans -cultural, -community, -political, etc. … that's hard. That's hard even to **find**, because we are so insular, stuck in our path(s).
It eats writing time.
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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 Which #Football team do you support?
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@lonelyboy1977 79.2% of all Mastodoners post about Linux.
Also since we're also all middle-aged we always discuss the good old sucky gaming days.
Pacman and Donkey Kong machines ruined pinball halls.
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@lonelyboy1977 As I mostly post in #Czech I cannot recommend following me.
What can I recommend is to search people and check their contacts. Whoever at least slightly fits your interests, follow him. Get at least 50 of them for start.
It takes a time to create a bubble here, but it definitely is worth the time.
Also - you can follow video creators as well!
I'll help you out a little:
@thelinuxexperiment_channel @elena @FediVideo @archives @sesivany @gamingonlinux @rhipratchett@schmaker Thanks for taking time out of your day to reply. I will check out the suggestions you gave.
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@lonelyboy1977 if you like retro, follow @ltning
@semanticfire Thank you for the suggestion.
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Pacman and Donkey Kong machines ruined pinball halls.
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Pups, surrounded by pups…
There are oldbies, and newbies, and preteens on #fedi. They are invisible to you.
You are invisible to them.
Unless you choose to look.
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@lonelyboy1977 Which #Football team do you support?
@UndisturbedPotato Liverpool #LFC
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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 hmm?
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Tip: always click on your own #hashtags. You will either find new friends, or be lonelier than ever
a corollary tip: another good reason to click your own #hashtags is to confirm the popular definition matches your own.
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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 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.
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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 hi Ian, I do read a lot of #sciencefiction and engage about it when I have something to say. I follow many authors.
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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
Hi! #Fantasy , #ScienceFiction and #Linux here. You might want to follow some of the hashtags you mention too: great way to find people. -
@lonelyboy1977
Start follow more People. For example the ones that post under these Hashtags. Dont follow verry large accounts, this here works over human-to-human interaction. Follow small accounts. Have fun! -
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.
