My Mastodon feed is filled with complete garbage and I'm not even in a small instance. It's all people talking about what they ate or about subjects I don't care about, people posting in languages I don't speak, and bot accounts for small news sites I also don't care about. It's very hard to find useful content there.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess you're looking at the global feed? I haven't used that since my first few days. I'd start following people and using the Home feed. Then you're not getting the everything-firehose.

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Probably? Admittedly I've only used it on Tusky, the Android app, and not much on desktop. It has a single feed which it calls "Local", which I assume is activity from the same instance I'm on. I'll give that a try on desktop.

[–] sotolf@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't be following the right people then, I have tons of people speaking the 3 languages that I know well, talking about interesting and fun stuff, sharing things they learned and cool things they made. It's all about curating your feed.

[–] static_motion@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the thing though, I can't find anyone interesting to follow in the first place. I never was much of a Twitter user honestly, but I still decided to give Mastodon a shot. Maybe it's just not for me.

[–] sotolf@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what stuff you are interested in, and yeah, it's not a platform with algorithms that will push stuff that the site thinks that you will like on you, so you'll have to do some work to find people you like. If you tried mastodon.social or some other humongous instance that doesn't really have a culture itself also it makes the whole thing more difficult, joining something like mastodon.art or hachyderm.io or some other one with an a bit more focused theme will usually be a bit better for getting started since your local feed will not be so random.