@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book.
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@pluralistic I’m all in with Mastodon since I’ve read your book. That being said the lack of activity / community compared to Twitter makes it hard to cut the X cord. Any recommandations of people I should follow?
@sydneyw Be aware that a great deal of Xitter 'activity' is bots and trolls.
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Mastodon doesn't push people or posts at you. So make sure your profile lists the things you want in common. Work, hobbies, political interests, etc.
Use hashtags, I can't write this often enough as hashtags help you find posts and people and let's them find you.
I never follow back if someone who starts following me has no info in their profile and no original posts.
I search every few weeks on key hashtags to check if people have joined who share my interests.
@tiggy Great tips! Thanks!
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@mina @brunogirin @sydneyw @pluralistic Me neither.
I'm generally following a bunch of beige.party not a cultists and random people I've thought may be interesting.
Interesting @mina! What’s your favorite way to discover new people? Search hashtags/topics? Look at other people’s following?
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Interesting @mina! What’s your favorite way to discover new people? Search hashtags/topics? Look at other people’s following?
At the beginning, I searched for hashtags, then I checked out conversations, and if somebody wrote something I liked, I checked out the profiles, followed sometimes.
So when posts started to appear in my timeline, I checked again the conversations, got in, when I felt, I could add something, and so on. Like if you were in a pub, but not ashamed to approach people (hard to imagine, I know).
If you were on Twitter, check out if former mutuals are here. They often use the same handles.
