Since I’ve been on Lemmy, I don’t know what my use is for Mastodon anymore. It’s dead on there anyway. I don’t have anyone to talk to and nobody responds to my posts.
Since I’ve been on Lemmy, I don’t know what my use is for Mastodon anymore. It’s dead on there anyway. I don’t have anyone to talk to and nobody responds to my posts.
You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you’ll get likes and boosts.
And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it’s quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.
Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.
“Creating your feed” is an essential part of of enjoying mastodon. Hashtags are the single biggest thing but also
How do I follow hashtags? I am using the official Mastodon app for Android.
You should consider switching to Megalodon. It’s a fork of the official Mastodon app so it’s already what you’re used to but adds features like following and pinning hashtags as we as supporting markdown in posts (if your instance is using glitch-soc)
I will check it out, is following hashtags a client side feature or OG webpage supports it?
The web client supports it too, as do other apps like Tusky and Ivory. The official app is just a weird outlier.
@kratoz29 @Jerry as stated here: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
“The official Android app doesn’t yet support hashtag following”, but you can use a different app that supports that feature. For example Tusky. :emoji_wink:
200% this, I did not enjoy mastodon at all until I realized you could follow hashtags. Once you do that you find your people and everything clicks.
When you follow hashtags do they bring people from other instances to your feed? Or does the search only fetch things from your own instance?
Edit: spelling
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