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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 03:11:38 JST FediTips has moved!

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   • Generic Sadboy 1916
   • HarriettMB.
   • Izzy Kamikaze

   @harriettmb @chriscoreline @IzzyKamikaze

   If people on here want their accounts to be discovered more easily, some tips that might help: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-followers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

   If they want to discover other accounts, these tips might help: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

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     HarriettMB. (harriettmb@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 03:11:41 JST HarriettMB.

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     • Generic Sadboy 1916
     • Izzy Kamikaze

     @chriscoreline @IzzyKamikaze You should look at and follow @feditips #feditips It’s a great educational tool for newbies and established people here. Keeps us up to date with changes, tell us how to do everything better too. And very responsive to questions.

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     Generic Sadboy 1916 (chriscoreline@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 03:11:43 JST Generic Sadboy 1916

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     • Izzy Kamikaze

     @IzzyKamikaze Im all for this kind of thing but i have OPINIONS;

     Practically: new people should be directed to the mastodaoine hashtag; from there its on us to engage; id also be up for am open night thing as you suggested

     Unpractically: Right, im goin to have a wee rant here; its the weekend, im allowed.
     Ok so the main push back i get is that people 'dont understand' mastodon; I'm like, "my friend between the stars, you type your bit in the box, push the button, and if the bit is good you get endorphen beeps"
     and then they are like 'but whats an instance and how does federation work' and im like "do you ask twitter how their geographic sharding and cluster load balancing works? Are you concerned about their network policy stack? Because, it feels like those questions dont get asked because they dont actually matter for any practical purpose"
     Basically this goes on until i realise that for a lot of people, the desire to leave twitter is either entirely performative or (more understandably) the 'discomfort barrier' of change is too high for them and, consciously or otherwise, they just want things to go back to the way they were in 2015, before the timeline split and we ended up in the shadow universe.

     ok, sorry, rant over.

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     Izzy Kamikaze (izzykamikaze@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 03:11:46 JST Izzy Kamikaze

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     I'm pretty new here myself & trying to find my feet, but I'm having a lot of conversations with bird site followers, encouraging them to come over here & one of the things I'm hearing is that they set up profiles already, but found it hard to get any engagement, so I'm just wondering what might help.

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     Izzy Kamikaze (izzykamikaze@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 03:11:50 JST Izzy Kamikaze

     I wonder would it be possible to have a #Mastodaoine open night once a week for a couple of hours to help new people (esp people from bird site migration) to find friends & get engaged in conversations? Mastodon is a lot less "live" than the bird site. Newcomers are responding to posts cross-posted from bird site & getting no response & finding it frustrating. I think lots of us being live on that # at the same time could make a difference.

     If this is a stupid suggestion, please forgive me!