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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Any good things to follow on Mastodon? I've tried using it, but between BlueSky and Lemmy, it doesn't seem to have as many users. No biggie, just asking. Cheers!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Mastodon actually has way more users than Lemmy but you need to follow each person indivdually instead of just following a community, which is probably why it feels more empty

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I want to throw in a second good word for hashtags. I follow a tiny handful of people, almost entirely personal friends. But I follow a lot of hashtags. Because it typically is the content that I'm after as opposed to a particular person. If my favorite poster of weather information decides to post something about accounting, I don't really want to see that. Also following a hashtag gets you a lot more exposure to like-minded people than you would if you were trying to follow them all individually, and you see a lot more posts about things you enjoy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Would you say there's a good amount of hashtags and what not for the creative type? I'm trying to find ways to network with people in my industry a little better. Cheers mate

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes!! I follow a ton of art and craft hashtags. My mastodon is popping, you just have to do some work.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm following 42 hashtags, a bunch of science, teaching, and programming stuff, mostly (I'm a CS instructor). But also things like #trains. :) And the state and city I live in.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I wish mastodon made tags as easy as Tumblr did. I hate that they clutter up the post and that there's no autocomplete.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I use mastodon to read about what scientists and environmentalists are writing. So not really for social, more like science based post viewing

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What are your top recommendations, my friend? I'm big on that, I like the social aspects if sites in a sense, but I prefer having a grouped area for my news.

While politics are important to stay up to date on, I'm trying to fix mt feeds to have as minimal political news as possible, unless I click on it.

I've been using inoreader, but haven't quite figured it out either. I'd like to follow scientists and environmentalists like you mentioned, but also artists, designers, small businesses, etc.

I'm trying to stay up to date in my relevant fields, but also find people to donate my time to. I've heard mastodon is great for networking, but to be honest, everyone on lemmy has been bad ass. This is becoming my new hub, does lemmy connect into mastodon fediverse thingy? Lol!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I use Mastodon to follow people and Lemmy to follow topics.

I actually created a Proof of concept where each hashtag would be a subreddit like interface a couple of weeks ago. Its VERY rough but links2 compatible :D. The idea is the first hashtag will be the "lemmy community" like interface. Its just mastodon.py with a very small fast api front end. Popped it up in an hour or so. I need to work on the UI badly but I keep not having the spoons.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Any way I can help you with your goals? No charge of course. I'd like to see more free options available for people, my time is worth the sacrifice to help give power back to the people.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I threw it up on Codeberg. Ill add in instructions later mastodon-to-hash-as-mblog. Feel free to fork and add what you want. Ill add in a README in a bit.

One thing to note, you HAVE to create an API token from the mastodon server of your choice in order to make this work. Theres probably a way around this, but I havent found it yet.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's definitely work in progress. But it has also grown a lot, and you will have no issues finding good content there. Hashtags and "people that the people you follow follow" are a good start. Also, at the end of my post you'll find some seed suggestions. :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Right on! Thanks for the genuinely helpful response, I've been trying to expand my presence on that app as well. Cheers mate!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Any time! What's your handle, I can follow you. :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's StepBacon, I believe haha, I'll give you a followback!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Connected! See you in the Fediverse. :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Followed back!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I follow a couple people like Hempuli (Baba Is You dev), Internetarchive, and David Revoy (Pepper & Carrot comic creator). Really depends on what you wanna follow. I follow them because I'm interested in their work in one way or another.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Building up a good list of follows on Mastodon is orders of magnitude harder than on Bluesky unfortunately. They need to address this if they want adoption.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I dunno. I joined Mastodon back in 2022 and just...followed people.

They weren't the same people as on Twitter, but it didn't really matter in the end. I now follow almost 600 people and never feel like my feed is empty.

One social media site doesn't have to be better than another, it just has to be sufficient for your needs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That takes a long time. I tried the same on Mastodon and ended up losing interest. I went to bluesky and just followed some starter packs and was up and running in less than an hour with 1000+ follows and a nice feed. Within a few weeks I had more than 700 followers myself.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe you can try following the Starter Packs of subjects that you like?

https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks I didn't know these existed!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Spread the good word!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

See, I don't understand why anyone would need to immediately follow that many randoms. And I don't get the need to speedrun social media.

But hey, it takes all sorts.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's investment vs payoff. I want to get a feed up and running, then I can tailor it as needed. My feed from using starter packs at Bluesky ended up better than 10+ years at Twitter trying to follow people individually, mostly because I was able to oursource the work of finding people with an interest in certain things to people who have put in the time to do this manually which I don't have the desire to do.

It may just be that the Twitter format isn't a good fit for me, but it worked at Bluesky in a way it didn't work anywhere else using that style of communication.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's true that starter packs are a great idea. A lot of innovation can be done around lists, and this is a good example. I second what @sopuli.xyz said, taking it slow on the Fediverse feels good. It's about the quality, not the quantity.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm definitely "taking it slow" on Mastadon. I think I've followed less than 10 people in the last 2 years. My feed is dead.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't that be a similar but less efficient version of a starter pack?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Sure. Efficiency isn't everything, though. At the end of the article there are a few people to get you started. Then you can go to your favorites in that list, and follow some of the people THEY are following. Rinse and repeat, follow boosted folks. You'll have 100 souls in no time.

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