Well, here I am #mastodon. I never thought the day would come, but I've decided to join a different social media platform.
To be honest, I'm really sick of #twitter or #x (whatever) and all the bullshit that happens on that shitty site. Even though most of my memories and followers are over there, let's see how this goes.
@lane_ass_jenna welcome, friend!
New users typically like to post an #Introduction, littered with hashtags that are related to their interests so others with similar interests can find easily.
Hope this helps!
@BeAware this definitely does, thank you so much for sharing! I'll eventually learn how Mastodon works, I promise!
@lane_ass_jenna it won't take long. There's some nuances, like hashtags being one of the main ways to discover people and content.
Full text search isn't widely adopted here.
There's no algorithm. You find what you're interested in using hashtags and following them and people that share interests. Once you do that, people you follow should boost others with similar interests, giving you a nice home feed to follow.
@BeAware @lane_ass_jenna
I will add that the trending topics suck too. But only because it's not US focused, and, you know us Americans, it's all about us
@kcanales02 @BeAware Hah yea that's something I'll have to learn and do some research about. I'm wondering if there's a way to get trending topics just in the US?