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Well if only having your own server on Mastodon was realistic, instead its totally impossible to get discovered. There is fix for this, which is Fedverse Relay

Well if only having your own server on Mastodon was realistic, instead its totally impossible to get discovered. There is fix for this, which is Fedverse Relays, but guess what ? Mastodons official servers don't use them.

rglullis 4y ago
I need to understand this obsession with "getting discovered via the application itself". I mean, what's the problem of using other means of communication to publish/promote your identity? I am far from being internet famous, and I get at least one follower every week on Mastodon simply because I put it on my Twitter bio.
- jacooper 4y ago
  Then your Mastodon is totally dependent on getting discovered via twitter.
  - RadiozRadioz 4y ago
    I'm sure that was just one example, not an exhaustive list of the single way people find this person on Mastodon.
proactivesvcs 4y ago
That simply isn't true. I'm a nobody and plenty of folk have found me from seemingly inane posts. People have found me out of the blue, from across the Fediverse, and I have no idea why; all I do know is we now chat frequently and without either of us even looking for one another. What's impossible is to discover how to use a platform without reading the documentation, and assuming that algorithms will just do the work for us.
- jacooper 4y ago
  If you use a popular instances your account will show up in searches, likes and other things. But when using an independent server, one would need to type your full username, and then try and see if such an account exists. if you only type the display name, or username without the server address, nothing will show up. Which is fine for chat apps like Matrix or E-Mail, but not for platforms where discoverability is important.
  - rglullis 4y ago
    You know what else helps a lot? Getting in quality conversations with others, having something relevant to share with others, etc. IOW, by being social. At this point, it seems like a feature that the system does not make it easy to be discovered.

rglullis 4y ago

I need to understand this obsession with "getting discovered via the application itself". I mean, what's the problem of using other means of communication to publish/promote your identity? I am far from being internet famous, and I get at least one follower every week on Mastodon simply because I put it on my Twitter bio.

jacooper 4y ago
Then your Mastodon is totally dependent on getting discovered via twitter.
- RadiozRadioz 4y ago
  I'm sure that was just one example, not an exhaustive list of the single way people find this person on Mastodon.

proactivesvcs 4y ago

That simply isn't true. I'm a nobody and plenty of folk have found me from seemingly inane posts. People have found me out of the blue, from across the Fediverse, and I have no idea why; all I do know is we now chat frequently and without either of us even looking for one another. What's impossible is to discover how to use a platform without reading the documentation, and assuming that algorithms will just do the work for us.

jacooper 4y ago
If you use a popular instances your account will show up in searches, likes and other things. But when using an independent server, one would need to type your full username, and then try and see if such an account exists. if you only type the display name, or username without the server address, nothing will show up. Which is fine for chat apps like Matrix or E-Mail, but not for platforms where discoverability is important.
- rglullis 4y ago
  You know what else helps a lot? Getting in quality conversations with others, having something relevant to share with others, etc. IOW, by being social. At this point, it seems like a feature that the system does not make it easy to be discovered.