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[–] 111 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I am a pretty heavy “Fediverse user” (Mastodon + Lemmy/Kbin) and my feeds have VERY little Linux talk. There is an incredibly diverse set of folks on the ‘verse but admittedly discoverability is hard. If the only people in your circle are Linux nerds then that’s all that might be boosted into your timeline. Put some effort into finding other folks and unfollow some of the Linux-only voices :-).

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Maybe people aren't used to curate their own feed anymore.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That's the biggest thing. My Mastodon is very curated as is my subscribed feed. Put work in, get quality out.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How do you curate your mastodon feed? How do you find interesting people to follow? I haven't created a mastodon account yet because I honestly not sure how to do this.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Here’s some tips for discoverability and building out a Mastodon follow feed - https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/17/mastodon-discoverability

    Here’s some tips for paring a feed gone mad down… https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/10/curating-mastodon-feed

    Happy Fediversing!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Thanks! Some of the tips are certainly not obvious to people not familiar with mastodon like me (follow a lot of people first to discover stuff they boosted then prune it later, follow people that boosts a lot).

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I think it's mostly people viewing the "All"/"Community" feeds. Which I feel like you have to do in general as the niche communities haven't really gotten to a self sustaining point where you can check your "Home" feed and not run out of stuff to doom scroll.

    Not to mention that if you happened to mention certain things in communities that are tangentially related (Windows/Nintendo/Apple) then it usually starts another off topic discussion on linux/piracy/whatever.

    Honestly the linux stuff doesn't bother me as much as every topic seemingly turning into a critique of capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I think a good and easy way to discover new people is to follow hashtags.

    I follow couple local pets work-related hobby and urbanism hastags, and I was able to discover new conversation and new people in these space quite quickly.

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