A little procedure I follow to help noobs get seen by others. I used to do what most people do and boost their # introduction posts, but I think most people want to see more natural engagement and sort of glaze their eyes over when they see the intro tag, so here’s what I do:
- Create a list called “noobs,” hidden from home timeline.
- Go to # introduction
- Follow every poster with fewer than say 25 followers and add them to “noobs”
- Periodically browse “noobs” for interesting* toots, boost them
- Periodically unfollow accounts in “noobs” (do not remove from list! That puts them in your main stable of follows!)
- Repeat
I don’t consider it spam-following, because I’m actually giving these accounts a good deal of attention and a good shot at being seen by a few hundred more people. Often I’ll genuinely like an account and remove them from the list instead of unfollowing them. I haven’t really tested this method’s effectiveness, but I thought I’d put it here for others to consider.
*I have a fairly eclectic profile, so I’ll boost just about anything that’s not asinine.
Thing is, one thing people want out of a microblogging experience is the validation of followers. If it was all about the hashtags, they’d be on Reddit or Lemmy, not Twitter and Mastodon.