I found myself at not being able to find something that sparks my interest to follow on Mastodon. So please share with me your interesting finds. No restrictions…
Finding stuff on Mastodon is more about hashtags. Eventually, by subscribing to #stuff you’re interested in, you will discover accounts worth following. The Tusky app allows you to subscribe to hashtags like to an account. I don’t follow people anymore, I follow topics!
Kind of completely depends on what topics you find “interesting”. I never quite got the point of following people, myself, it’s why I wasn’t on Twitter. But thankfully on Mastodon you can follow topics via hashtags instead and just dip into the interesting convos without having to deal with whatever other nonsense people talk about on a daily basis cluttering up your feed.
Interestingly that’s also how Twitter used to work, but I understand it’s quite different nowadays so people struggle a bit with changing back to topic-focused.
Would you mind sharing how to follow hashtags? Couldn’t figure it out n the mobile app.
On mobile I use the Tusky app and there’s a follow icon in the top right when you’re viewing a hashtag feed. Imagine it depends which app you’re on though!
Yeah no, the default app doesn’t have this feature for some weird unknown reason.
Tokyo camera club
Thank you.
Lists of people by topic: https://fedi.directory/ https://fediverse.info/explore/people
Mass-follow people by topic: https://communitywiki.org/trunk Or just follow a bunch of tags
And, once you have a few people that you follow, you can use this to find more based on whom they follow: https://followgraph.vercel.app/
If you’re a Star Trek fan, @JeriLRyan@mastodon.world and @georgetakei@universeodon.com is there.
If you’re a dev, maybe @JenMsft@mastodon.social or @codinghorror@infosec.exchange or @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange or @shanselman@hachyderm.io ? @jonskeet@hachyderm.io is also there but not very active.
If you’re a retro gamer, @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place is pretty active.
Literature fan? Im a fan of @MicroSFF@mastodon.art . And @neilhimself@mastodon.social do sometimes reply there.
Thank you.
