An idea to help onboarding on Mastodon : a website with curated list of mastonauts on given subjects/languages.
Also, we could have more local lists (list of people in my town, etc).
@masklayer @ploum @Gargron im the official slime dog of fediverse dot com
This kind of functionalities can be problematic as it increase one of the biggest problem of social medias : "influencers" aren't followed because they are the most interesting people, but mostly because they where the early adopters (the earlier you come, the more you get followers, so the more visibility you get, so the move followers you get in return, etc).
But it could be interesting if the curated peoples are "low visible" accounts, to counterbalance this.
@ploum
Quickly finding people to follow helps, but isn't this already (at least partly) served by hashtags? Searching for a couple hashtags and scrolling a few days back for each generally yields a couple subject-related/interested people.
It's also more organic than set lists, it's real-time, and it doesn't need any curating.
@ploum Could be really cool if it's opt-in.