Ask HN: Am I using Mastodon wrong?

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2 years ago

I made an account on mastodon.social. Posted about a variety of topics, observing to use hashtags that people actually follow, but... almost no engagement whatsoever?

Maybe I'm using it wrong? I know there are many thematic instances that mastodon.social is federated with, but would I need to get an account on each of those to ever get any interactions? With no federated auth (afaik) no way I'm gonna get even more accounts to which I'm gonna forget the passwords.

Edit: probably turning on these two is going to help: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/814/483/545/218/588/original/c53e77a530927f2f.jpg

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