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How to find people to follow? Is there a hashtag on mastodon to ask about finding certain people based on certain interests?

• zigg 9y ago
  You can search on #introductions and see a lot of people making often-hashtag-laden posts describing themselves.
• ohtwenty 9y ago
  There's #ff or #followfriday for suggesting, but i've seen it used to ask for suggestions as well.
  • zigg 9y ago
    There's also Freya, the Follow Friday bot, who will randomly throw you suggestions and let yourself be added to the pool. https://botsin.space/@FollowFriday https://botsin.space/@FollowFriday
• ColinWright 9y ago
  On the left there is a search box. Type in a hashtag and it will give you a list of possible hashtags. Click on one of them and the search results come up in the right-hand column. Your instance may vary, but that works on mine, and is effective. Either that or follow a few people and then see who they boost. Follow those boostees if they look interesting. Growth is slower and more organic, but it's a good way to keep growth under control and not end up with a firehose.
• forty8bits 9y ago
  Another user in this thread posted a comment[1] containing a link to http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mastodon.technology&view=local http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mastodon.technology&view... which no doubt will come in very useful for browsing local timelines of other instances to find interesting users. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742180
• lokedhs 9y ago
  Judging by the recommendations in the comments here, this would be a great place to start.