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> This... is what I do How do you do that? When I used Mastodon, I could only see my own instance's local timeline and the federated timeline. Basically, how d

> This... is what I do How do you do that? When I used Mastodon, I could only see my own instance's local timeline and the federated timeline. Basically, how do I Mastodon?

arcatech 4y ago
Follow people (including people from other instances) and then interact with them on your timeline just like you would with Twitter.
- kixiQu 4y ago
  Yup, pretty much just this. I make lists of folks in certain groupings to be able to fake being able to see posts-from-the-subset-of-people-I-follow-from-yesterweb.social and similar (and hooo could this functionality use some ux polish), but mostly I'm looking at the feed of all people I follow.
Matumio 4y ago
For initial discovery you can (web-)browse a large instance by hashtag. Results will include posts from other instances. Then you follow anyone who is posting or boosting interesting stuff. On a large instance you can also subscribe to tags. I don't think you can remote-subscribe to tags (except via RSS). On a small instance tags are less useful as they only show posts the instance already knows about (e.g. from people someone is following). Once you follow enough people, you'll see them boosting posts from all over the fediverse. Then you have the inverse problem. You'll have to ignore or unfollow, because mastodons seem to be allergic to the concept of algorithmic feeds. (You can guess why.) > browse the content of those communities, and jump between Ah, the magic of web links. Click a post date or profile, and Bam! You're on their instance.
- kixiQu 4y ago
  All of this is correct! I use an instance I host myself that only has one other user on it. I've found that in such a case you have to follow very aggressively (to get content federating over to your instance; X who I follow RTed something from Y that sounds interesting, Y's profile seems like a good vibe, I follow) and unfollow aggressively (Y is live-tooting a reality show with many, many posts), which is kind of doing the work more manually that Twitter's algorithmic regime does for you. But it's also giving you control, so... trade-offs.

> This... is what I do How do you do that? When I used Mastodon, I could only see my own instance's local timeline and the federated timeline. Basically, how do I Mastodon?

arcatech 4y ago

Follow people (including people from other instances) and then interact with them on your timeline just like you would with Twitter.

kixiQu 4y ago
Yup, pretty much just this. I make lists of folks in certain groupings to be able to fake being able to see posts-from-the-subset-of-people-I-follow-from-yesterweb.social and similar (and hooo could this functionality use some ux polish), but mostly I'm looking at the feed of all people I follow.

Matumio 4y ago

For initial discovery you can (web-)browse a large instance by hashtag. Results will include posts from other instances. Then you follow anyone who is posting or boosting interesting stuff. On a large instance you can also subscribe to tags. I don't think you can remote-subscribe to tags (except via RSS). On a small instance tags are less useful as they only show posts the instance already knows about (e.g. from people someone is following). Once you follow enough people, you'll see them boosting posts from all over the fediverse. Then you have the inverse problem. You'll have to ignore or unfollow, because mastodons seem to be allergic to the concept of algorithmic feeds. (You can guess why.) > browse the content of those communities, and jump between Ah, the magic of web links. Click a post date or profile, and Bam! You're on their instance.

kixiQu 4y ago
All of this is correct! I use an instance I host myself that only has one other user on it. I've found that in such a case you have to follow very aggressively (to get content federating over to your instance; X who I follow RTed something from Y that sounds interesting, Y's profile seems like a good vibe, I follow) and unfollow aggressively (Y is live-tooting a reality show with many, many posts), which is kind of doing the work more manually that Twitter's algorithmic regime does for you. But it's also giving you control, so... trade-offs.