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I tried mastodon last year, but the federated timeline is still very random. I wonder how to find good people to follow :) @f055@mastodon.matrix.org

• jordigh 9y ago
  ohai, I was wondering who you were. Yeah, the federated timeline is a bit odd. I'm not exactly sure how I got started, but I did look at the randomness for a bit and started picking up people that looked interesting, and, ahem, socially networked my way into their network to find more interesting people to interact with. If they boosted or talked to someone, I checked out that person to see if they were someone I would like to interact with too. It also helped to start from an instance that had a local timeline that I liked. Also, when I noticed someone was knitting, I asked them about it, and they gave me pointers on the #mastokal tag to look at, from where I found more knitters and more interesting people. It requires a bit more participation than what I understand you can do for Twitter, which already curates from the beginning a starting point. Now that I'm done with that bootstrapping, I'm really enjoying the conversations I am having there. You might enjoy browsing the #tootorial tag and see if you learn anything, e.g. https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99520886210579519 https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99520886210579519