Hubzilla as a reach expander

Jupiter Rowland

Hubzilla can give Fediverse content more reach. The same applies to (streams), it will apply to Forte, and I guess it applies to Friendica as well.

You just need a whole bunch of connections, and you need to come across Fediverse content in irregular ways, e.g. by receiving posts with links to other posts or subscribing to a hashtag RSS feed on mastodon.social (the latter doesn't work on (streams) and Forte).

If you discover a post that needs more feedback (or any feedback in the first place), especially from the kind of people whom you're connected to, just copy its URL and then search for it. This way, you manually import it onto your stream.

Once you see it, repeat it.

If you've got enough reach yourself, you can now watch that post be repeated/boosted/renoted/reposted and ideally also commented on.

It's with this trick that I've actually helped @Elena Rossini ⁂ join Friendica.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Boost #Boosts #FediTips

Dr. Daniel Dizdarevic

@jupiter_rowland Interesting, thanks for sharing! This applies to anything your Hubzilla account is connected to (also diaspora), right?

Jupiter Rowland

@Dr. Daniel Dizdarevic AFAIK, it does insofar as I can forward Mastodon toots to diaspora*. Probably.

But diaspora* can't directly forward Mastodon toots because diaspora* can't directly receive them. And it has been so long that I've left diaspora* that I don't know if diaspora* has something like a "retweet" feature. After all, neither has Facebook which diaspora* aimed to replace.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #diaspora*