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Small recap about my experience on #Mastodon so far:
- It’s much less annoying than any other social network so far.
- After following a few people I have an always interesting feed
- But following hashtags is almost better than that
- And I need to find a balance between people and hashtags
Still don’t know if #masto.ai is the “right” instance for me, but then I never use the local or federated feeds, at all.
With #icecubesformastodon I can also view local timelines of interesting instances
@danieldekay Oooh, and two weeks after that post / thread, has that user experience shifted / changed? Better, worse? 
@elsua I also managed to get a test-account on friends a connected with a mastodon app on iOS — and it works even though it throws errors and warnings.
Have not really played with friendica’s feature set, and have yet to find a lively hubzilla or zot site.
@elsua Have you added a #fediverse plugin to your blog yet? To make it followable from fediverse? Why, or why not?
I am still clueless why that would be better than just using the #rss feed.
@danieldekay I have already added the #ActivityPub Wordpress plugin, indeed (As per 
https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/), but it looks like I need to fix something else first, before it'd work.
To me, it's about reach, frankly. With the RSS feed people *already* know the blog (= already subscribed to new posts). With the #fediverse plugin, it's about helping other folks discover the blog in the first place before they may subscribe (If they like what they're reading, that is 
).
@elsua But then essentially you could also just share your blog posts, or use a bot to do that. The direct fediverse plugin makes the blog an independent actor, and discoverability doesn’t increase, unless you share it and point people there…
Or maybe I am missing something.
@danieldekay Indeed, I could just share the blog post, but then we would be talking about the power of Push vs. Pull. With the #fediverse plugin we'd be relying on the latter. Eventually, it's down to people to decide how they'd want to consume the blog posts through different means of reach.
I just don't need to be there, pushing it, but rather rely on people to pull IF they find the content interesting and relevant to their needs & wants.