danielloftus , 6 months ago

@hamed - I don't know, I'm connected with a good few on there but I'm not a huge fan of either of these platforms, so this is the lesser of the two evils methinks...

Steph_the_prysmcat , 6 months ago

@danielloftus @hamed Probably lots of folks into genealogy on Mastodon... could start a community here, just using a hashtag. Or find one to join that already exists.

jane_chapman , 6 months ago

@Steph_the_prysmcat @danielloftus @hamed There is a #Genealogy community on Mastodon maintained via both hashtags and a genealogy-specific instance as well. It is just not as active as it potentially could be

david , 6 months ago

@jane_chapman @Steph_the_prysmcat @danielloftus @hamed It's down to you, the users, to interact and make #genealogy great on Mastodon and the Fediverse more widely. Just remember your hashtags. Very important.

#genealogy @genealogy @genchat

kwheaton , 6 months ago

@david @jane_chapman @Steph_the_prysmcat @danielloftus @hamed @genealogy @genchat I think people forget that all engagement is up to them. There's no algorithm to boost your posts---just you and others. If someone asks a genealogy question or info. Like and retoot. Use # s for appealing to potentially interested viewers. And foloow # s to stay in the loop.

jane_chapman , 6 months ago

@kwheaton @david @Steph_the_prysmcat @danielloftus @hamed @genealogy @genchat
I agree. Have complicated my life slightly by being on two instances at the same time. I recently joined this one to be with my Pebble friends but I don't want to give up my .nz one until this one is better established (given that it was descibed as an experiment when it first started).

Flominator , 6 months ago

@jane_chapman
Be aware that you can also redirect accounts to each other and that you also can see local feeds of other instances - but you won't appear in them obviously
@kwheaton @david @danielloftus @hamed @genealogy @genchat