Hello. My younger sibling has recently created an account on a small Wafrn instance (we avoided the main one due to them being too young). However they’re now facing the problem that I faced back when I briefly joined a small Mastodon instance way back: there’s very few posts, and almost nothing is federated; it feels very barren so they’re not really using it and spending most of their time on Tumblr (which is what they want to avoid). What can be done to find more people to interact with and follow on smaller instances?
You can follow Lemmy communities, right? Maybe something like
@games@lemmy.worldor@movies@piefed.socialAlso there’s probably some bot accounts that boost posts, maybe you can follow one of those for a while until they start following the people that it boosts. Maybe
@MostFollowed@mastodon.socialOne can also follow hashtags at https://relay.fedi.buzz/