I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

  • Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

    Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

    Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.

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      1 year ago

      OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.

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      1 year ago

      What I find when I follow tags is that my feed is now totally flooded with hundreds of new toots every time I log in - how do you deal with this? It’s way too much for me to ever go through and get anything meaningful out of it.

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        1 year ago

        Follow a few interesting people based on a tag, perhaps by number of favorites / boosts, and then remove that tag.

        You can always add it back in later.