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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[–] Jerry@feddit.online 34 points 1 year ago (7 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.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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

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