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[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And I still don't know how to use it, as in getting an interesting feed.

[–] Vipsu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Myrbolg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ha, yeah. That's what's holding me back the most. Somehow it worked with Twitter.

[–] Vipsu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I also didn't understand how to do this in Twitter. Tried twice, didn't succeed. At least, now I don't miss it.