Well, I am not on Mastodon myself, because twitter-like social media isn’t my cup of tea, but from what I heard, engagement there seems to happen much more on a following-hashtags level than following-users level, so maybe (ab)using hashtags more might do the trick.

Use the ever loving fuck out of hashtags.

Try Bluesky instead, it’s more active as microblogs go.

the meme should really swap lemmy and don’s numbers, we all see triple digits on lenmy all the time