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Neat!!!
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Been on Mastodon since October 2022.
It’s a great platform.
Is it recommended to create an account specifically for Mastodon or just use your Lemmy-account? Will it fuck up my feeds/subs in some way if I only use one account for both? (I’m new to the whole fediverse thing)
I’d have a separate Maston and Lemmy. Because they present differently. And are different systems for the most part.
I think you would need a separate account for Mastodon since you need to login through a server
Not really, but a new Mastodon account will help you have a better experience. I am following some mastodon accounts from my Lemmy
This is great! But generally can’t see Mastadon overtaking any other major social platforms until it introduces an equivalent of For you feed from Twitter. The days of following specific people and hashtags is over, it’s tedious and I don’t give a shit about 3/4s of the feed.
2017-2020 Twitter was absolutely peak Twitter algorithm wise and thousands of users want that exact experience back, yet nobody will provide it.
Mastodon adding their version of Tweekdeck was what set me to completely abandon Twitter.
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So true
Stay away from advertising money , if you need money to keep a server up then start a gofundme or a patreon or something … make it community based so that your instance stays community based .
And I still don’t know how to use it, as in getting an interesting feed.
Ha, yeah. That’s what’s holding me back the most. Somehow it worked with Twitter.
I also didn’t understand how to do this in Twitter. Tried twice, didn’t succeed. At least, now I don’t miss it.
Just look for the things that you are interested in. That’s how i accumulated many of my followed accounts over time as well as subscribed subreddits over time.
You can also look for users under the same name on Mastodon and (hopefully) find them.
Please note that if you find an account you also followed on twitter and it ends with @bird.makeup, it’s a bot mirroring tweets on Mastodon without mirroring your answers on Mastodon back to Twitter.
Thats likely due to lack of algorithms with goal to keep you browsing forever. Twitter likely harvests all the data it can get from you when you browse twitter. They can also track your browsing habits using your IP (among many other things) and sites that have embed twitter content like share button or embed tweets.
Hashtags are your friend. It also helps if you have some active posters for the tag. I get good content from following #sciencefiction #coffee and #python.
Ok. What’s next? There’s a tweet, there’s an icon that it has 16 comments, but I can’t read those. When I click on that icon I have the ui to write a comment.
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Finding people to follow in Mastodon mostly happens by:
- Search topics using hashtags
- Randomly browsing local feeds of different instances
- Randomly browsing the federated feed
- Randomly browsing local feed
There are instances for different interests like game development, art, information security, foss etc so there’s a lot of places to dig for good content.
let’s gooo 👏🏼 the fediverse is getting bigger!
Mastodon is where the intelligent people are filtered to from Twitter. The idiots end up on Threads.
No matter how much FaceMeta disgusts me, at least Threads has some semblance of moderation to keep the MAGA fascists under control. I rather have to deal with idiots than with the far-right cesspool that Twitter is turning into.
Thankfully, we have Mastodon, so I don’t have to deal with either. They’re both blocked on my PiHole, so I just get a DNS error when I accidentally click on links.
Good sugestion
Always a bit of a sobering experience in the rare instance that I end up in Twitter. The fact that some of them are willing to be so blatant about being a PoS is a little concerning to say the least.
When the owner themself doesn’t hide what kind of PoS they are, this is what you get. I have no love for Zuckerberg, but if I can criticize him based on what he does and how he does it and the effects his decisions have on society, any one with brains could without having to resort to low brow insults of measuring contests. That’s basically the difference, one service is managed by someone who, despite all his flaws, is an adult, the other isn’t.
BTW, I used neutral pronouns for the “chief twitt” and not for Zuck just to spite him and make the point that one doesn’t have to lower the level bellow a certain threshold to provoke, all considering how they hate “woke” stuff…
take your meds
I’d love to use mastadon but I use twitter for sport/politics journalists and none of them are on mastadon.
Yeh I still use reddit to repost sports twitter
There is quite a bunch of journalists on Mastodon though.
Can’t you just use a rss reader to see their articles?
It’s not just articles though. A lot of commentary happens on twitter that never makes it to a long form article
Very cool, I am one of the 8800 😸
How do we check this?
There’s a few tools for it but this one’s my favorite https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/dailystats
There’s also this one: https://fedidb.org/
On Official site of mastodon
Mastodon is the most stable social network I have used in a long time. Love it!
Everyone is okay. I haven’t even seen sinophobia yet
1989 Tianneman square protests
It’s here unfortunately, but unlike reddit, opposing opinions aren’t modded out.
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But that’s just like, your opinion
Everything is going according to the plan!
‘There is broad consensus among experts that the early 2020s shifts in social media populations were what has come to be called asshole-driven.’
Scraping Assholes-A History of Social Media from 2006-2056
R. McDonald (2069), published by McDonald’s Textbook Division, Schaumburg, IL, USA
McDonald’s diversifying into higher education publishing is a scary, and not as far-fetched as it should be, reality.
Chad citation… the future looks bright, time traveler!
Heckin’ yeah!
What’s the occasion?
Wednesday!
