this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
64 points (92.1% liked)
Fediverse
28388 readers
681 users here now
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Mastodon is your personal soapbox where you can shout your thoughts.
However before you have followers, you're kinda shouting into the void.
However hashtags are like little campfires and if you go to one. You'll see people. If you share your thoughts around the campfire, people will see you.
Now once you've met people (and followed them), you can see them from atop your soapbox, no need to stand around the fire. Though in some cases, you won't know what they said before you became friends.
The more campfires you find (and follow) along with people, the busier your home feed is and the more interesting and/or fun your experience will be.
Good explanation. I've been on birdsite a while and struggled to get into Mastodon because of the lack of an algorithm and not knowing you could follow hashtags.
I just wish the artists I follow on Xsite would move to Mastodon instead of Threads and Bluesky.
It’s a never ending battle to get people to quit using bad media. Never. Ending.
Yeah, the nice thing about Lemmy and kbin is that enough people left Reddit that this can work, since Reddit had a more technically savvy userbase.
Unfortunately, there is also a group that left for Squabbles, and while I do like Squabbles so far, I am mindful of the fact that the owner would like to monetize it someday. There have already been rumors of charging for API access and other questionable things.