On Twitter I mostly followed people I knew in real life, comedians, some novelty and parody accounts. I joined Mastadon and I really don’t see anything interesting to me looking at trending posts and what not. It seems very grown up and dry. I miss a little of the “Wild West” aspect of twitter from early 2010’s with offensive humor and cutting satire and just silliness.
Any suggestions?
I found a few podcasters I listen to and looked to see who they follow. There are a lot of tech people on there.
I also follow a few sites like Hacker News.
I also follow hashtags of my city and favorite sports teams. I just used the search function to find them and also watched what was on many of the posts I like.
My feed is now more than I can realistically keep up with.
I use the Ivory app, so there is a Trending feed. Sometimes I just read it.
Mastodon isn’t really a Twitter replacement, in that there’s no recommendation algorithm, and no real notion of trending topics. You need to actively search for users you like and events you’re interested in.
It takes effort. Follow hashtags. Whenever you see someone who posts something you like, follow them, then creep on their subscriptions and follow them.
Aside from folks in my city, I enjoy
@carnage4life@mas.to @ancient_catbus@jorts.horse @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social @pooh@botsin.space
- @FediFollows@mastodon.online
- @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social
- @Curator@mastodon.art
- @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online
- https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
- https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1TTtXbf0yDXHKXwR9jpZ4kU79mmiZT5KIM7U4tBr83hY/mobilebasic
- https://communitywiki.org/trunk
- https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1D3VmoLQWB7D-XF6dEXstJuAgo66Nk9Pq/mobilebasic
The more you interact the more it will open up. Follow and boost without pause. Follow #introduction and #introductions.
For me it was follow liberally and go down the rabbit holes of peoples reblogs to find more.
You can always unfollow later if they suck.
Search for hashtags then add them to your follows, that will show you any post with those hashtags, from there you can follow people that seem to interest you.
Learning to follow hashtags was a game changing moment for me on Mastodon. Went from not really using it at all to frequent user.