Many of them are software developers, business leaders or other professionals who are still engageable without the noise of the hundreds of millions of users on Twitter drowning any good-faith discussion out generally.
There are also lots of crypto critics on Mastodon. Not one to shy away from a debate, it’s an easy way to engage with prominent critics, and learn from the mistakes of other cryptocurrencies. A list is given below.
Getting Started
Sign up for an account, you can change the drop-downs here to select ‘Public Organization’ legal structure and ‘Instant’ sign-up speed.
moa.party lets you bridge your Twitter<>Mastodon easily. I recommend not bridging RTs/QTs
fedi.directory has some tips for getting started on Mastodon, as well as some categorised accounts to follow.
The search on mastodon is purposefully bad (for privacy). Best way to find stuff is to add hashtags to your Home feed, and then jump on any related discussions that pop up!
Hashtags
Hashtag
Information
#crypto
Most active
#cryptocurrency
Most active
#cryptography
#Cardano
Servers
Some interesting servers found, you can search for more here
I’ve been meaning to branch out into other platforms and have been hearing a lot on Mastodon lately, so I’ll give it a shot. Twitter has been feeling rather echo-chamber lately (or moreso).
Any Matrix strategy or not really enough users yet?
These are great directives and resources you have posted. I would love to be one to follow up on some of these leads. I have a long history of “sales” so think would be good about marketing.
Mastodon only has ~10M users at the moment, but with Threads (100M) and bsky (5M) compatibility on the horizon the fediverse could become a real competitor to Twitter overnight.
Bluesky is an open-source microblogging platform powered by the AT Protocol. It functions pretty similar to Twitter so there isn’t much of a learning curve, just sign up at bsky.app.
For a mobile app, the default one is pretty good and similar to Twitter, there’s also openvibe.social/ that does Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads & more from one app.
There’s an awesome-bluesky page with all clearsky links and things like skyfeed.app which are also popular (Clearsky= bluesky things outside the federated network hosted on the regular web)
cafe has kindly made up an Ergo Starter Pack, this is a quick way to follow all ergonauts who’ve registered on bluesky. (Reply to this post once registered to be added)
I’ve made a ‘cryptosky’ feed, this tracks a bunch of keywords and accounts involved in crypto or related topics and filters out anyone I’ve added to the ‘Twats’ list. There aren’t many crypto feeds on bluesky yet so please add a like to this one so we can bump it up to the top!.
The vibe is still heavily anti-crypto mostly. However because of the way bluesky works, the people who aren’t interested in seeing crypto posts will subscribe to a blocklist and not have to be subjected to it if they don’t want to be. Most of the people who are anti-crypto are simply that way because of all the scams, rugs and BS in the space. So you can’t really blame them. They haven’t heard of Ergo.
In just a few hours of messing around with it last night I have several good discussions about LETS with non-crypto people, and discussions with Bitcoin maxis on why they should be maxis. Some big influencers have also started moving over and they’re much easier to get through to without being drowned out by the noise on Twitter.
So there are good discussions to be had, and I think it’s probably the best way to do some ‘debubbling’ from Twitter which has been stagnant for a while. Even very successful posts rarely net you new followers, and we seem to mostly be talking to each other. So please sign up and start chatting!
Some resources that will be useful for discussions
Figured out how to fold starter packs into a list and using that to create custom feeds.
The first one is all people from all the crypto starter-packs I could find + using keyword selection to pull random tweets. The ‘Curated’ and ‘What’s Hot’ feeds only use the people from the starter packs so should be less spam.
What’s Hot CryptoSky HN: ‘HN’ seems to be a ‘Hacker News’ algorithmic ranking based on likes/time.
Some starter packs had bots/fake accounts/etc in them so I am going through and manually removing them. Easy to do from Lists as you can add/remove users from their profile and the feed is automatically updated.