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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Mastodon even have a filter so I can view all tweets from every instance like Lemmy does for posts? Because, if it does, I haven't found it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with

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

I'll have to give Mastodon another shot. Maybe that's what I was messing up.

That said, I was always a bigger reddit user than tweeter

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

I've found the same thing. Twitter was great for very specific, topic-based communities with everything else filtered out. The only reason I used it heavily was because of a couple of small, insulated scenes.

My Mastadon instance is just an insufferably banal stream of tweeters who are united in their fear of posting anything interesting enough to be offensive. It's basically "nice twitter", which still sucks balls anyway if you don't have a scene to keep in touch with.

Lemmy is very much "nice reddit" for now and I'm finding it far more enjoyable to use.

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

Where can I find that? I'm using the Mastodon app available on Google Play.

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

Unsure there sorry, I use Tusky

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

I mean, yeah, that is the whole point.

You need to search for key words or alternative just press a hashtag you see on a post, hashtags is how all instances communicate since there isn't a proper text only searcher across instances.

Hashtags are extremely important if you want people from outside your own instance to find your posts and they are heavily used by everyone for that reason.

Of course you can manually search for users, or go to other instances and follow people from those, that way yohr own timeline will be filled with people outside your own instance.