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Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other
  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like Lemmy a lot, and I liked Reddit before. I never really liked Twitter, just followed some NASA accounts that told what certain probes/landers/rovers were doing. I’m interested in Mastodon because federated platforms seem to sustainably fill the gap the big 5 are trying to enlarge. What kind of content are you guys getting from there?

    Lemmy was kind of jarring at first, but extensions like the universal link switcher help a lot. Any stuff like that to help onboarding Mastodon? Thx folks.

    • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What kind of content are you guys getting from there?

      For me it’s probably best described as “background chatter”, so mostly a bunch of different news sites that aren’t important enough for me to go into my RSS feed, bots posting notifications, and random thoughts from bloggers.

      Any stuff like that to help onboarding Mastodon?

      There are those that help you to stay on your home instance as well, but the big one for me is StreetPass for Mastodon, which finds and collects Mastodon accounts as you browse the web. That way you can organically build your network without much effort. You’d be surprised how many accounts from news sites, open source projects and people with blogs you can find that way.