Hacker News Reader

I found a survey about Mastodon:

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/a-mastodon-survey-ac74948765c7

It says the main reason for not joining / abandoning is lack of friends. And also hard to use which doesn't help pulling in more people, so no friends, then a downward spiral.

Is there a way out?

View on HN

I feel like a simple plugin that pulled in your public Twitter friends usernames and offered to follow anyone with the same username @mastodon.social would really help here.

Pretty hard for Twitter to stop it if it were a client that scraped the list too.

It exists. https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/

Thanks, I'll have a play with this.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com