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I don't twitter or mastodon. But isn't "people who share your interests and then connect with them" exactly what the different mastodon instances are for? You'r

• futuretaint 4y ago
  twitter has a social dynamic where opposing interests feed off of each other so you need in-group + out-group. there are psychosocial elements which mastodon does not have as it's more reddit like IMHO. edit: for clarity
• remram 4y ago
  No, federation works great in practice. I personally chose an instance I trusted to stay up and available, not one with any fancy domain or topic. You can usually browse an instance without having an account, for example: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/explore https://mastodon.gamedev.place/explore (user directory) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/public https://mastodon.gamedev.place/public (stream) And once your instance federates with it (happens automatically, just needs any user to follow any user on the other one), you can search for hashtags.