As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately this is not the fault of mastodon, its community or tech behind it as much as ... nobody from twitter actually moving to mastodon. There aren't many big influencers, companies or content creators on mastodon so your feed is just random people talking about random stuff. The lack of algorithm doesn't help either since someone's random showerthoughts have the same chance of showing up for you as does something trending that you'd actually be interested in.

[–] Boiglenoight 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Follow / pin active hashtags. I have 4, #news #nintendo #xbox and #playstation. I’m a simple man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then I get even more random irrelevant crap because everyone talking about their latest rp adventures in stardew valley tags steam, gaming, indiegaming and other general hashtags.

[–] Boiglenoight 1 points 1 year ago

There's some of that, but I prefer it for something like micro blogging. I want to see different things, points of view. By contrast, I'll go to a news site for specific info. I love Mastodon because there's a unvarnished stream of information that isn't curated by algorithms. :D

[–] khajimak 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, everyone I followed on Twitter went to Bluesky, some made accounts on Mastodon, but none of them stuck around