"Starter Packs" on Bluesky are good.

At minimum, it's something for people to do, an opportunity for engagement. "I'm making a starter pack about X, please reply if this is you!"

More generously, it is a really useful onboarding tool. I went through a few starter packs, and continue to find more good ones.

The nice thing about Bluesky's Starter Packs is all I had to do is hustle to get on a few good starter packs and now I can just sit back and collect followers while doing nothing.

Or maybe that's not a nice thing... 🤔

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

From experience with passive follow systems, they work well when people are active, but if there's churn, people complain about engagement to follower ratio.

Lol yea I was kinda subcasting here that there is some rhyme to lessons learned on Warpcast.

I _think_ there will be more novel lessons to learn here, but not certain what they are yet.

There's something about bespoke "starter packs" for inviting specific people that sounds appealing. And something about "lists of people to follow" that sounds appealing (in a subreddit/topic-group kind of way). But the current implementation feels flawed (it's very burdensome to audit the follow list and grab people piecemeal since there's no metadata -- so you open a million tabs and get throttled; and you can't "pin" it as a List you can check separately from following).