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How do I engage? (self.mastodon)

submitted 10 months ago by 50_centavos to c/mastodon

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I never used Twitter. Reddit was the only social media I engaged/posted on for years, moved to Lemmy a couple months ago. I made an account on Mastodon, downloaded moshidon, followed a bunch of hashtags, now I don't know what to do. Do I just start posting "Facebook status" type posts? Is Mastodon basically like individual Lemmy comment threads with hashtags being the main post?

Now I know how my parents feel when I try to explain anything outside of Facebook to them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I never understood the point/purpose of "microblogging." It's like making an entire post out of a throwaway comment. That's what I saw on mastodon, didn't choose to participate. Also found it was hard to find people I wanted to follow, and that it was flooded with porn I wasn't interested in and couldn't effectively filter.

[–] 50_centavos 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah I followed hashtags like #history or #science but I would get flooded with things that vaguely had to do with those subjects; just because people added like 20 hashtags to their posts.