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

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 11 months ago

Adding to Brian's comment, if you use hashtags, please avoid spamming them. First and the main reason, because it's spammy. And second, too many hashtags cause visual noise.

And if you're still looking for an instance, maybe pick some mid-sized Mastodon instance (plus it has good Peertube compatibility). Would advise, however, to avoid creating an account on Mastodon Social as it eclipses the other instances, risking to defeat decentralization. You could also pick a Friendica or Mbin instance as both support microblogging and threads.

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