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I switched from Twitter to Mastodon a month or two ago and mostly like it. The tech platform is fine; not as polished as Twitter but it works and has some nice

I switched from Twitter to Mastodon a month or two ago and mostly like it. The tech platform is fine; not as polished as Twitter but it works and has some nice features like spoiler warnings. But the community is very thin there. Folks are trying and in some subcultures it's pretty great, but I'm finding I'm missing the wider world of Twitter sometimes.

kstrauser 9y ago
Advice from a longer-time user: browse your instance's federated timeline and follow lots (way more than you would on Twitter!) of interesting people from there. You'll soon start seeing the stuff they promote and finding new users to follow. Non-users: the federated timeline is basically the union of all users followed by anybody on your instance. If I follow {a,b,c} and you follow {b,c,d}, the federated timeline will have all toots from {a,b,c,d}. This timeline is also what gives instances their "feel". If you're on an instance with a lot of geeks, they'll probably follow a lot of other geeks, and the federated timeline will have lots of geekness. Same for s/geek/cat lover/ or witch or activist.