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Mastodon is useless (to me.) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since I've been on Lemmy, I don't know what my use is for Mastodon anymore. It's dead on there anyway. I don't have anyone to talk to and nobody responds to my posts.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it's quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.

Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Creating your feed" is an essential part of of enjoying mastodon. Hashtags are the single biggest thing but also

groups help surface new material
you can follow lemmy/kbin users (you can also follow communities but you only see boosts)
you can subscribe to peertube creators
you can follow pixelfed users if you want more pictures in your feed
etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

How do I follow hashtags? I am using the official Mastodon app for Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@kratoz29 @Jerry as stated here: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
"The official Android app doesn’t yet support hashtag following", but you can use a different app that supports that feature. For example Tusky. :emoji_wink:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should consider switching to Megalodon. It's a fork of the official Mastodon app so it's already what you're used to but adds features like following and pinning hashtags as we as supporting markdown in posts (if your instance is using glitch-soc)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will check it out, is following hashtags a client side feature or OG webpage supports it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The web client supports it too, as do other apps like Tusky and Ivory. The official app is just a weird outlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

200% this, I did not enjoy mastodon at all until I realized you could follow hashtags. Once you do that you find your people and everything clicks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When you follow hashtags do they bring people from other instances to your feed? Or does the search only fetch things from your own instance?

Edit: spelling