Alright! So one fine day I decided to check the Fediverse out and eventually joined mastodon. I’ve downloaded the Megalodon app on my phone and everything. And now I’m at a loss on what to do with it. In reality, how do you use Mastodon? I’ve never used Twitter before, so I’m completely new to this form of social media. All I saw were people talking about strange topics only they understood with no engagement whatsoever, and the other posts were straight up anime furry porn left and right. I only found out about Lemmy today. and it’s even amazing than I expected. I’d love to hear how you use the Fediverse platforms and any tips you have.
@oxter you have to be your own algorithm to find things of interest. Possibly the easiest way is to follow a hashtag and then look at the profiles of people who are posting it to in order to find people to follow. Once you’ve got enough of them then the posts they boost should give you more leads for other folks to follow.
Some hashtags are niche and some are fire hoses put hopefully you’ll find conversions of interest.