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Mastodon is very active after you start following enough people and hashtags to populate your feed. It's a bit rough to get started though: no algorithm means no content (or very random content in the local/federated feeds) until you build it up for yourself. But once you hit critical mass, I've found it a much nicer experience than I ever got on Twitter.
I run into the issue of people randomly using hashtags. For example, I follow #reddit, but then all I see is porn. And if I search for, say, MKBHD, then I see at least two dozen of them. Some are "legit" retweeting bots, others are just impersonators. I've been trying to use Mastodon since a couple months back but I never really got into it. We need more persons of significance and media outlets to join. I am disappointed that, after NPR quit twitter, they don't have at least some kind of presence on Mastodon.
That was my experience too, following widely used hashtags just results in a mess of people tagging everything personal with them, in foreign languages, or sometimes even irrelevant things just to get clicks. And all this content is treated equally when it comes to populating my home page. I've had some luck following individuals but that's also just random chance who you find. It really needs the bigger content creators and personalities there in order to take off as twitter replacement so there's some consistency and quality.
The handful of people that I still want to follow on Twitter, I follow on Mastodon via one of the many mirror instances. I've been using bird.makeup.
Yeah, you do get to reply to them but at least it's a way to mitigate the initial lack of content. Extra points if you unfollow the celebrities on Twitter and tell them you'd rather follow them on Mastodon.