Nobody uses email to discover new email addresses, outreach is direct. Discoverability is a massive part of social media platforms and is hindered by the isolated pod structure that Mastodon supports
Discoverability and onboarding and authentication is hard.
I remember the fluffy days of Facebook, where almost in an instant there was a wildfire of 'you might know' suggestions, from harvested addressbooks and cross referencing.
I found, and find discoverability hard on Twitter. My follow list rarely gets bumped and I am pretty clueless as to who and what is in it. I have to make an effort to grow the list.
Tweet reach may be massaged by favs, comments and retweets. Not totally sure how this is different in Mastodon.
Are we talking timeline/search promotion?
I remember email round robins pre Facebook and you did add people if you recognised them.
Directory services just got pulled as they were harvested by spammers. Not that I think this would help. You need some nudging.
If I read an article and the author had an easy lookupable and addable feed, I might note it.
raytube|3 years ago
I remember the fluffy days of Facebook, where almost in an instant there was a wildfire of 'you might know' suggestions, from harvested addressbooks and cross referencing.
I found, and find discoverability hard on Twitter. My follow list rarely gets bumped and I am pretty clueless as to who and what is in it. I have to make an effort to grow the list.
Tweet reach may be massaged by favs, comments and retweets. Not totally sure how this is different in Mastodon.
Are we talking timeline/search promotion?
I remember email round robins pre Facebook and you did add people if you recognised them.
Directory services just got pulled as they were harvested by spammers. Not that I think this would help. You need some nudging.
If I read an article and the author had an easy lookupable and addable feed, I might note it.