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@skuwamoto I’ll give a more direct answer below. But let me offer how to think about discovering content and connections in general. There are many nodes (instances) on this decentralized platform. (For example, yours is mastodon.social, priryo’s is linernotes.club, and and mine is libranet.de.) It would overwhelm the system to ensure that all posts travel to all nodes. Instead, posts travel selectively, through the connections and interactions made between the users on different nodes. More specifically, first by the “follow” relationships of users and then secondarily by commenting on or resharing a post by another user from another node. Once it has arrived at a new node, a post is discoverable by all users on that node.

For example, I saw your post because I follow @priryo and priryo reshared your post. That means your post was first on linernotes.club and would have been pulled into the feed of any linernotes.club users who follow the hashtags on your post. When priryo reshared your post, it traveled to the nodes of all of priryo’s followers and ended up in both the feeds of priryo’s followers as well as the feeds of users in the followers’ nodes that follow the hashtags on your post. The lessons here are …
- Hashtag your posts. (For example, let’s add #newhere to grab the attention of those who help newbies get oriented.)
- Follow hashtags.
- Follow people from other nodes.
- Comment on their posts. Not only does it help posts travel but it contributes to a culture of mutuality and listening more than speaking.
- Reshare others’ posts. Especially those who might not otherwise have a megaphone. Especially if the post has hashtags. Strike a balance here so that you aren’t resharing so often that people don’t get to know you and so that you aren’t overwhelming your followers feeds with content they cannot filter.

Now, to give you a hopefully more direct answer about finding #figma fans. Do any of these these look like the kind folks you are interested in following?