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I'm in an instance with a couple thousand users, it's not very active. I think network effects are extremely important and eventually you have most people going

I'm in an instance with a couple thousand users, it's not very active. I think network effects are extremely important and eventually you have most people going into the biggest instances anyway. Though obviously this is still a preferable situation, mastodon's reach is still not good enough. People don't just want to say things, they want to say things and have others engage with them. But I mean, I would still encourage at least trying it; exploring different instances, finding a home.

nextlevelwizard 5y ago
Isn't the whole point that you don't need to "explore different instances" since instances talk to each other?
i5heu 5y ago
The accumulation on one instance is not necessary, because there is almost no difference in the user experience between a local use and a Federated user. Also you can cross post to Twitter. This is what I opted to use. Just use the reach from Twitter, but the main thing is mastodon
INTPenis 5y ago
Where do you measure activity? I'm a small instance admin that has chosen to focus only on one particular type of user to grow slowly, and thanks to 10+ AP relays our federated timeline is very active. It does wonders for discoverability to see one message every second show up from all over the world.