As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users

No one is going to feed you content. It's a different way to think and consume media. You just gotta start following people or hashtags and see which content and people are posting things that interest you. Go the the local feed of the instance of the world feed and watch things unfold.

But you gotta bootstrap it. There's a lot of interesting people and content in it.

There's a few sites that help with discovery by listing relevant people and topics.

There's hashtags important to follow at the start, for example #fediverseMigration where lots of posts trying to help new people and guiding them appear.

I know it may hurt a little at the beginning, but it's so worth it and rewarding. So, don't quit and give it a little bit to grow on you. It's a new experience so not everything will feel similar to what one knows previously.

And, the amazing thing that on mastodon one being able to directly interact and comment on lemmy posts is just mind-blowing.

So. Good luck. And Thanks for all the fish.

I mean, isn't that a good thing? You shouldn't be doom scrolling anyways

Also, that's a temporary measure. As more people migrate, there will be more content.

Hit "Explore" and follow hash tags to grow your list of accounts to follow. It really helps a lot! Mine used to be like 2 minutes of scrolling and I'm done for the day. Now it's....um....I should get back to work.

there is still some work needed to be done on sync for lemmy meanwhile, you can try connect or liftoff for Lemmy

Same. It feels like Mastodon isn't anywhere close to approaching critical mass of users

Same. It feels like Mastodon isn't anywhere close to approaching critical mass of users necessary for it to take off.

Best thing for discovery in Mastodon is to follow hashtags. This is algorithm-like in that you will see posts from people you don't follow, on the topics you have an interest in.

Discoverability was largely the reason why I got in fights with Mastodon users over the platform being in a bad place when Twitter had its first wave of musk awfulness.

I find that the system is now much improved, but man, I can't stress out just how bad an impression I was given that everyone seemed to think searching posts by tags was a bad thing, and that tags in general were, in fact, objectively broken at the time. Like, people go on social media with purposes in mind.

It's fixed now. Tag activity is shown correctly. Tag history also gets shown correctly. You can also follow tags. That's all I wanted, and acknowledgement of it, not a philosophy discourse.

I wish I knew that existed before Twitter shut down the API. It doesn't work anymore.