@Gargron

I took like a six month break and came back. I think if we can get them to install Tusky or another mobile app they are more likely to stick around.

In hind sight I took a break after formatting my pixel 4a.

@Gargron it's like they say, power grows out of the barrel of a gun 🤷

@Gargron What if we just pointed a gun at them? Alternatively, for those of us that can't use a gun, we could use a knife. Or we could gently lick their ears? Or like, send them candles. With guns in them. Everybody loves candles! And guns, maybe.Or I could transform into a spider. It wouldn't help anything, but I'd be a spider.

@Gargron I was just catching up with a friend and was telling them about how much I've gotten into the Fediverse lately, and they were like: man i like mastodon, haven't used my account in forever though. i should get back on.

Word of mouth can be pretty effective but hard to leverage but getting people to talk about it definitely helps.

@Gargron Well, I'm not sure how to make them take another look at Mastodon, but I can definitely do some free advertising here and there on Discord.

@Gargron

Maybe @FediFollows needs a twitter account to tell people how awesome this place is 😉 there are lots of people here that add something like "join mastodon" in their twitter bios, maybe they'd help to spread the word?

@Gargron Eugen I am new here. I'm not an expert at all. But I'd say that if people have a need to be here they will be here.

Also, there is that bit inside of me that says wishing to make people want something is such a hard path.

All that being said, the simple answer to your question is that there absolutely is a way. And it's what several folks answered...marketing is the way, even if that's word of mouth.

@Gargron as someone who hasn’t been on here for a year...it’ll happen by itself!