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.

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[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What new Mastodonians need to understand is that they need to follow hashtags, not people. This should be the first welcoming sentence on any instance.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What hashtags do you follow? Most things I try to look up end up having a majority of the posts in Japanese or German.

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

#ecology for example has a lot of nice English posts.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I follow both, but a lot more people/organizations than hashtags.