@spenney Mastodon is heavily hashtag-driven for discoverability, so yeah that'd be the way to go.

@spenney

Usually.

I find asking interesting questions and using #hashtags liberally usually gathers a lot of super helpful and interesting people, particularly if there's a passionate community behind that topic.

Also (TOP SECRET!), NO ONE can resist an interesting poll with lots of hashtag.

Also, if you say "boost please!" (and hashtag the 'boost'), if the "cause" is just and the toot helpful, you'll usually get plenty of boosts.