Without #contacts / #friends it is rather difficult to become motivated #posting here. Already searched contacts lists for shared #interests... hard to find.
@guus that's the common issue with Fediverse in general - as there is no huge company backing it up with advertising, most people don't even know about the place, let alone consider to be here.
However, don't get upset just yet - check out Mastodon, as it is the most popular Fediverse platform that actually may have some of your friends, and invite them over here as well!
@Alehandro.... I'm on Mastodon (troet.cafe/@Guus) but thought Friendica is something special in Fediverse. In Mastodon, I've quite a few contacts who, like me, all left Twitter. where we already knew each other. But apparently, none of them is here at Friendica.
I recommend searching for your interests/hashtags and saving them (button in the upper right hand corner). This will then put that content in your feed going forward. For example, I have #catsofmastodon saved and I now see cats in my home feed. Finding people you know is a challenge, simply because most people are not on here. Even asking them to join specifically usually doesn't work. It's frustrating because in my opinion, the experience on here is so much better than on Facebook and other sites.
A lot of friendly people follow the hashtag “introduction” (I don't include the hash here, since this isn't one.), and including that tag with the first post may cause more people to help with pointers.
Also, I suspect part of the problem is that it seems there is a problem with federation towards Mastodon, where most of the people are. I have a Mastodon account where I follow my Friendica account, and still nothing I have posted here has shown up on Mastodon. The other way around seems to work perfectly fine. (Could be an effect of the fancier access rules of Friendica and I have made the problem myself, of course. I don't know, I'm a newbie on Friendica.)
I have shared this issue with the admin of friendica.world, and they said they believe it to be an issue with the backend of Friendica that is leading messages to be severely delayed. They put in a fix, and the message queue and been going down, but it is still in the 100's of thousands of messages waiting to be delivered.
@guus that's the common issue with Fediverse in general - as there is no huge company backing it up with advertising, most people don't even know about the place, let alone consider to be here.
However, don't get upset just yet - check out Mastodon, as it is the most popular Fediverse platform that actually may have some of your friends, and invite them over here as well!