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What are some interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I found myself at not being able to find something that sparks my interest to follow on Mastodon. So please share with me your interesting finds. No restrictions...

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Finding stuff on Mastodon is more about hashtags. Eventually, by subscribing to #stuff you're interested in, you will discover accounts worth following. The Tusky app allows you to subscribe to hashtags like to an account. I don't follow people anymore, I follow topics!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Realizing this blew my mind. Definitely more interesting than following people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not useful for finding people to follow but you now can also populate your feed with Lemmy communities. Also check out a.gup.pu !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only thing that sucks is it seems this makes it more likely to get spam since the spammers will just plaster up a bunch of hashtag words.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this something that's currently missing from the official app or am I just dumb?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it is on android still? In which case I recommend megladon. It's a fork of the official app with more features, like following hashtags.

I thought all the third party apps were really ugly, so I was happy to find out about this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation, just installed Megalodon and it works a treat 👍