I've been trying to stick to Mastodon and ditch Twitter, but honestly, even though I've gotten into the habit of using Mastodon every day, it's pretty hard for me to resist accepting information from Twitter.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Good, Twitter is a disgrace to humanity
I made a mastodon account but there aren't as many meme feeds on mastodon.
Any android app recommendations? I'm yet to use Mastodon.
I use Tusky on android, I'm happy with it.
Megalodon is definitely the one.
I also recommend elk.zone
moshidon
Official one, Tusky and for advanced users is Fedilab.
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I root for Mastodon like everyone else but as long as there is some very good improvement in discoverability and intelligent feeds, it will never be the same in function as Twitter (not X, Twitter). Especially when it currently has a fraction of the creators Twitter had.
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my engagement rates on mastodon and bluesky have been significantly higher than twitter despite having 1/5 the number of followers
Small town big city syndrome, in a small community you can conceivably know, recognise or otherwise relate to a good proportion of the people in your town, and anyone you don't know you likely know people in common - but once a community gets big enough your brain can't deal with it and your neighbours become an abstract concept, background noise, rather than people.
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How's bluechew or whatever, I still haven't gotten an invite
Soaring? 2.1M users is soaring? I'm all for the Fediverse, but it will never reach mainstream social media numbers, and honestly I hope it doesn't.
YouTuber Ctop is soaring!!!
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I find Mastodon very stuffy and boring, is there a way to shake up my feed? I feel like I'm missing something about how the app works.
Tools help, and because the Fediverse API is completely accessible, folks have already come up with awesome stuff.
- Populate your following list by finding friends, the Fedifinder still appears to work and helps find friends from Twitter on Masto: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
- Now find friends of friends, the wider social graph. Followgraph works wonders: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
- Now you will likely miss posts, so try following updates of people if you really enjoy their content, plus of course pinning hashtags. PLUS. Up your game with an algorithm, either in the dedicated Mastodon app (trending posts) or with more customisation through the app Fediview: https://fediview.com/ Using Mastodon Digest (GitHub), you could also set up your own automation script.
- Folks have created lists and groups you can mass subscribe. The most successful one I know is from and for academics, perhaps there is a field for you in there. Journalists have similar stuff. See https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
- There are many awesome apps out there to access your content, improving the experience. I recommend Phanpy because of its unique and sleek design, see https://phanpy.social/. If you miss Quote Tweets and other stuff, try an app like Elk.
- Mastodon is only one option, if you want all of Twitter's tools and more cool stuff, try Firefish. You can migrate followers and posts. This way, you can skip many external tools.
And that's just the beginning.
Follow a lot of people to fill up your feed. Be generous with it, and if someone you followed continuously posts something you're not interested in, you can just unfollow, or put up a filter so those posts from that person do not show up.
There's also a feature to follow hashtags so they appear in your home feed, so just search hashtags of things you find interesting. That's a good way to find new people to follow as well! Advanced web view also allows you to make feeds for specific hashtags or hashtag combinations for even more control.
And if you happen to find an instance catered to your specific interests, you can make an account there, and you can even migrate an existing account so your followers come with. Chances are the local feed will be filled up with content you enjoy on such an instance.
And if you want to help your followers discover similar people, be sure to boost content you enjoy.
On Mastodon, you are in control of your feeds. Even on the federated timeline, to an extent (as filters work there as well).
I'd recommend following the hashtags you want to see. It's sort of a build-your-own algorithm
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Nice