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And I still don’t know how to use it, as in getting an interesting feed.
Hashtags are your friend. It also helps if you have some active posters for the tag. I get good content from following #sciencefiction #coffee and #python.
Ok. What’s next? There’s a tweet, there’s an icon that it has 16 comments, but I can’t read those. When I click on that icon I have the ui to write a comment.
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Ha, yeah. That’s what’s holding me back the most. Somehow it worked with Twitter.
Thats likely due to lack of algorithms with goal to keep you browsing forever. Twitter likely harvests all the data it can get from you when you browse twitter. They can also track your browsing habits using your IP (among many other things) and sites that have embed twitter content like share button or embed tweets.
Just look for the things that you are interested in. That’s how i accumulated many of my followed accounts over time as well as subscribed subreddits over time.
You can also look for users under the same name on Mastodon and (hopefully) find them.
Please note that if you find an account you also followed on twitter and it ends with @bird.makeup, it’s a bot mirroring tweets on Mastodon without mirroring your answers on Mastodon back to Twitter.
I also didn’t understand how to do this in Twitter. Tried twice, didn’t succeed. At least, now I don’t miss it.
Finding people to follow in Mastodon mostly happens by:
- Search topics using hashtags
- Randomly browsing local feeds of different instances
- Randomly browsing the federated feed
- Randomly browsing local feed
There are instances for different interests like game development, art, information security, foss etc so there’s a lot of places to dig for good content.
What are the best Mastadon servers Linus/Tech related?
Granted I’m kind of new to mastodon, but I’ve found fosstodon to be great this far.
Linus is at https://social.kernel.org/torvalds
And the other Linus?
Linus is on @linus@social.kernel.org
Great news. I really wish I could get on with it.
What’s the reason for mastodon to gain so many new users now suddenly? Didn’t Elon Musk start wrecking it quite a while ago?
The Twitter panic and lock down. You can’t read tweets without being logged in
To be honest - Lemmy migration made me an active Mastodon user.
I joined Mastodon right after Musk took over Twitter. I was never big on Twitter but wanted to try mastodon.
But never became active. Because I was not a tweeter. I was also not a tooter.
The Reddit exodus was a wake up call for me and I committed to become a user and supporter in fediverse. So the migration to Lemmy/Kbin activated me as a Mastodon active users.
A lot of people left due to it not being morally sound for them to support Musk and his actions.
But now there are paywalled features that are ruining the functional experience of Twitter. You can’t look at the site for more than half an hour before getting restricted on a free account
Plus Mastodon has had time to polish instances, apps and gain a userbase so it is a little easier to transition
I mean, each time he’s messed it up more, another group of people migrates off twitter over to alternatives. I also think more people in general are becoming aware of the fediverse in general thanks to what’s going on w/ reddit, but that’s speculation on my part.
Seriously, it feels like established social medias are trying to kill themselves lol
They were already killing themselves by running at a loss. Now they’re enshittifying to try and make any profit.
But switching costs were lower than they had hoped, so there’s no profit to be made. Their business model was flawed.
The Boomers were right about (federated) email all along and now the rest of the internet is figuring it out.
Yay! I still don’t know how to use anything that looks like twitter tho
I would humbly submit calkey as an alternative. It’s the best interface I’ve seen out of anything on the fediverse.
I spun up a Calckey instance a week or so ago. It’s leaps and bounds better than Mastodon.
cool.
A great win for decentralization and censorship resistant networks!
Highly irrelevant song to celebrate Mastodon’s milestone!
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Just saw that on fedidb, Hooray! Hehe
First time I hear about this but I can see already milions of rulles to accept before creating account so I’ll pass.
So here’s my question: what content are you looking for that is forbidden in most circles?
Furthermore, the state of bad actors on Reddit speaks to the failure of loose enforcement and a lack of cohesive rule base across the entire website.
So what rules are impeding you to access what you want?
It depends a lot on the instance you’re trying to register on, they usually have a good dose of rules but it’s not all of them
Is it recommended to create an account specifically for Mastodon or just use your Lemmy-account? Will it fuck up my feeds/subs in some way if I only use one account for both? (I’m new to the whole fediverse thing)
I’d have a separate Maston and Lemmy. Because they present differently. And are different systems for the most part.
I think you would need a separate account for Mastodon since you need to login through a server
Not really, but a new Mastodon account will help you have a better experience. I am following some mastodon accounts from my Lemmy
This is great! But generally can’t see Mastadon overtaking any other major social platforms until it introduces an equivalent of For you feed from Twitter. The days of following specific people and hashtags is over, it’s tedious and I don’t give a shit about 3/4s of the feed.
2017-2020 Twitter was absolutely peak Twitter algorithm wise and thousands of users want that exact experience back, yet nobody will provide it.
Mastodon adding their version of Tweekdeck was what set me to completely abandon Twitter.
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So true
let’s gooo 👏🏼 the fediverse is getting bigger!
Stay away from advertising money , if you need money to keep a server up then start a gofundme or a patreon or something … make it community based so that your instance stays community based .
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