• Cuteblooded@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Okay, so I never used Twitter but figured I’d give Mastodon a try.
    But what do you even do there? Is it just a place where you wait for specific people to shout into the void? And then what?
    Also how do I even find interesting subjects or people to follow?

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      1 year ago

      Twitter/microblogging is a weird thing in general but you seem to have the idea. It can be useful for following events or people who write interesting things.

      Mastodon hashtags are the way to discover conversations and people to follow, they go across instances in search.

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          1 year ago

          I feel like twitter has been around long enough that people that want to use a platform like it will be aware of the concept of a hashtag for finding posts on a topic, etc.

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          1 year ago

          Lol I totally empathize with you!

          Basically I use mastodon as a feed for entertaining shit that I can easily interact with. I follow a bunch of artists and comedians. I scroll down and am entertained. If I want to be extra nice, I leave a comment and tell the artist they are super cool. People usually reply back, which is nice!

          And because it is part of the fediverse, you can follow people from all kinds of apps! It’s pretty cool :)

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      1 year ago

      @Cuteblooded @Troll I found that posting about stuff that interests me, following bright people who respond, and using hashtags is not a bad way to start. And check the local feed and the fedi feed from time to time to find new people to interact with.
      #welcome

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      1 year ago

      Sometimes it’s useful following specific projects or organizations you’re interested in to be notified when anything interesting is going on. In a way similar to an RSS feed I suppose

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        1 year ago

        They are also RSS feeds by default, just append .rss to the back of the profile address and add to your feed reader. For example, to tune into Elvira Mistress of the Dark in your rss reader the link would be:

        https://universeodon.com/@TheRealElvira.rss

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      1 year ago

      @Cuteblooded For starters, hashtags seem to be a bigger deal here than on Twitter. You can follow hashtags for their themed content, or just search them to find people to follow. And if you hashtag your posts by category, people will actually notice.

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      1 year ago

      Yes?

      You can also shout into the void yourself. Eventually somebody might notice and reply.

      You can watch the local or federated timelines and if someone says something interesting you can follow them and reply. Or you if you get linked from elsewhere to a good post you can follow the author. Or you can see a list of popular hashtags (or look up a hashtag) and see posts in them, or post to them.

      What else is there supposed to be to do there?