Instead of saying "come to mastodon" link the person to a thread here where they would totally want to jump in and join the conversation.
"we were just talking about this here: ***link*** -- could really. use a perspective like yours."
It gives people a starting point and some people who are active and who they'd want to follow.
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@futurebird I'm thinking of this following scenario now:
For every link that they find interesting, they sign up at that instance. And if another thread is linked from a different instance, they sign up there.. and then there.. and there.. and...
I can totally see this happening! 😅
