I'm waiting for the new users to say something here and welcome them

@Sphinx You can also post a welcoming post without a name inserted.

Make it nice writing, include a nice and relevant image. Repeat once a week or so, changing the message and image.

In personal welcome messages to new users, I always like to include a couple of Mastodon Guide links -- most new people need that, the Fediverse is VAST and Mastodon itself is full of controls and settings, privacy levels, Federation, etc.

Guide is definitely NEEDED.

@design_RG
Good advice,
I feel like there is more serious problem or phenomenon is they got their account post a hi to everyone message and never come back(•_•)

@Sphinx The places in Fediverse are not like Facebook, there's no cheering when someone who is already know to a member joins, here it is more anonymous.

And that suits some, many people who are privacy concerned. But the casual ones, posting a Hello message and not getting any reactions, those might not come back, yes.

Qoto was my first ever Fediverse experience, I found it based on JoinMastodon.org, but selected it based on the instance description, theme.

Got lucky to come in at a good time (November's Indian Diaspora was moving from Twitter to Fediverse), and to find a good instance. I liked it, and was soon getting involdved and learning the ways of the place and the software.

However -- if my very first instance had been less optimal, say something like masto.social -- I wouldn;t have lasted 3 days either.

Being completely honest on this, I want to write someday about this - from personal experience to my view as a community builder and staff member, besides being part of many other communities too.

Nomad, that's me. I like to see the several Caravanserai out there.

Images galore, beautiful places : https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Caravanserai&FORM=HDRSC2