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I joined a fediverse group but it’s all just random short posts. Kind of like knock-off Twitter to put it bluntly. Also the “home” tab is empty which is a bit c

I joined a fediverse group but it’s all just random short posts. Kind of like knock-off Twitter to put it bluntly. Also the “home” tab is empty which is a bit confusing. I want this to succeed, but as a social media site in order to succeed they need people (interesting people who like to post interesting things), and a good feed algorithm. This is where Facebook, Twitter, HN, etc. are worth a lot: many social media sites could easily replace Twitter except they don’t have these.

zaarn 5y ago
For the home tab to populate, you need to follow people. Mastodon doesn't push content you didn't ask for. I would recommend checking out the local and federated timelines and see what people are up to.
- slkdk32 5y ago
easrng 5y ago
It's like twitter but decentralized and with no algorithm. You follow people and you see their posts in chronological order. It works great once you've started, but yeah if you don't know anyone on fedi to begin with you're going to have a rough time finding people to follow. If you already know people who have fedi, follow them and when they boost posts see if the person who wrote the post they boosted is interesting. If they are, follow. Don't follow too many people though or you will have an unmanageably large timeline. I've been on fedi for about a year and a quarter. I started out following one person (@maia@crimew.gay) and now I follow 108 people and have made ~3.2k posts. It works for me and my friends at least and I don't really care about adoption beyond that.