• The dogspaw
    link
    fedilink
    English
    7211 months ago

    Let me tell you about my lord and savior decentralized social media

      • 6daemonbag
        link
        fedilink
        211 months ago

        Best album. I’ll never get over the opening line: I THINK THAT SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL MEEEEE

  • @[email protected]
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    2911 months ago

    Okay, so I never used Twitter but figured I’d give Mastodon a try.
    But what do you even do there? Is it just a place where you wait for specific people to shout into the void? And then what?
    Also how do I even find interesting subjects or people to follow?

    • nick
      link
      fedilink
      1711 months ago

      Twitter/microblogging is a weird thing in general but you seem to have the idea. It can be useful for following events or people who write interesting things.

      Mastodon hashtags are the way to discover conversations and people to follow, they go across instances in search.

        • nick
          link
          fedilink
          311 months ago

          I feel like twitter has been around long enough that people that want to use a platform like it will be aware of the concept of a hashtag for finding posts on a topic, etc.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          111 months ago

          Lol I totally empathize with you!

          Basically I use mastodon as a feed for entertaining shit that I can easily interact with. I follow a bunch of artists and comedians. I scroll down and am entertained. If I want to be extra nice, I leave a comment and tell the artist they are super cool. People usually reply back, which is nice!

          And because it is part of the fediverse, you can follow people from all kinds of apps! It’s pretty cool :)

    • Zyratoxx
      link
      fedilink
      411 months ago

      I just love the fact that Mark Ruffalo is using Mastodon

    • Nils
      link
      fedilink
      English
      411 months ago

      Sometimes it’s useful following specific projects or organizations you’re interested in to be notified when anything interesting is going on. In a way similar to an RSS feed I suppose

        • Nils
          link
          fedilink
          English
          511 months ago

          Essentially a web feed to have a single timeline from multiple sources. Think of it as Google News but you manually choose the sources and it’s chronological.

        • TJA!
          link
          111 months ago

          One of the best things the web has to offer

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        211 months ago

        They are also RSS feeds by default, just append .rss to the back of the profile address and add to your feed reader. For example, to tune into Elvira Mistress of the Dark in your rss reader the link would be:

        https://universeodon.com/@TheRealElvira.rss

    • the_blackwell_ninja
      link
      fedilink
      311 months ago

      @Cuteblooded @Troll I just follow a bunch of people and hashtags. Anybody suggests following something or someone I do. It’s easy to unfollow if you end up not liking the content from someone or some hashtag.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      211 months ago

      @Cuteblooded @Troll I found that posting about stuff that interests me, following bright people who respond, and using hashtags is not a bad way to start. And check the local feed and the fedi feed from time to time to find new people to interact with.
      #welcome

    • Paul 💙
      link
      fedilink
      211 months ago

      @Cuteblooded @Troll shout into the void… Or voice an opinion… If enough of us voice an opinion it might change things… the alternative is keeping silent and that is not mentally healthy

    • @planish
      link
      111 months ago

      Yes?

      You can also shout into the void yourself. Eventually somebody might notice and reply.

      You can watch the local or federated timelines and if someone says something interesting you can follow them and reply. Or you if you get linked from elsewhere to a good post you can follow the author. Or you can see a list of popular hashtags (or look up a hashtag) and see posts in them, or post to them.

      What else is there supposed to be to do there?

    • WriterOfMinds (she)
      link
      fedilink
      111 months ago

      @Cuteblooded For starters, hashtags seem to be a bigger deal here than on Twitter. You can follow hashtags for their themed content, or just search them to find people to follow. And if you hashtag your posts by category, people will actually notice.

    • David Hopeward
      link
      fedilink
      111 months ago

      @Cuteblooded Assuming the instance you joined is some kind of community that you’re a part of, check out the Local feed. Other people on your server may show you some good stuff and/or be worth following.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      411 months ago

      I saw them for the first time during the Unheavenly Skye tour.

      My first time seeing Coheed too!

      It was one hell of a show.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    411 months ago

    Problem for me is that Twitter for me is about the official announcement-y things which aren’t leaving lol. It’s not great, but for football news all the journalists are still there, and so are the clubs.

    • squiblet
      link
      fedilink
      311 months ago

      The way to get that to change is to not go to Twitter, and if any of those people have another outlet, read and interact with that one.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    411 months ago

    I know all about Mastodon. Been doing it just about everyday for years, sometimes twice a day!

  • Roundcat
    link
    fedilink
    211 months ago

    I think I’d rather keep Mastodon small and quirky. The moment it starts to feel like twitter, I’m off.

    • Lexi Sneptaur
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1111 months ago

      Nah it’ll never be like Twitter. Those users will all line up for Bluesky

      • AlmostDachshund
        link
        fedilink
        111 months ago

        I feel Bluesky already lost its hype. Should’ve been launched near the announcement. I believe Threads it’s where people would go if leaving X.

      • haruki
        link
        fedilink
        111 months ago

        Out of the loop: why there is so much hype for Bluesky?

        • TJA!
          link
          111 months ago

          deleted by creator

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      411 months ago

      At the risk of sounding like a door-to-door fediverse evangelist: the good thing about mastodon is you can always move to a small and quirky instance, or even start your own small and quirky instance and defederate from any parts that you don’t like.

    • Erikatharsis
      link
      fedilink
      411 months ago

      Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.