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Make sure you are following hashtags if you aren't. Follow people to get everything they post. Follow hashtags and you'll just get interest based posts (since pretty much everyone hashtags the shit out of their posts for visibility).
Hashtags dump a bunch of stuff into my feed that I just don't care about. I just want a good way to sort search results by something other than chronological order so it's easier to find people to follow, a chronological timeline is fine as long as I can choose what shows up there
Which app do you primarily use?
Megalodon, though I do like Tusky as well
Following hashtags seems to give me all the content I want, more than from what people I follow post. Maybe experiment with different variations of hashtags.
Nah, doesn't really work for me. Most topics I want to follow, hashtags are either not used, or used too broadly so I'm not really interested in what I get, or used too often so my feed gets filled with posts and I can't see the people I'm following.
What I do is if I want to see somebody's posts but I don't want to see all of their posts, I put them into a list. Then if they boost a post I like, I check out the person's account and either add them or don't add them to the list. Doesn't work too well, but it's not awful either.
And then I also have 1 hashtag pinned (Moshidon feature), so that I can see the posts on it without getting them in my home feed.