emptyother,
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If you’re a Star Trek fan, @JeriLRyan and @georgetakei is there.

If you’re a dev, maybe @JenMsft or @codinghorror or @SwiftOnSecurity or @shanselman ? @jonskeet is also there but not very active.

If you’re a retro gamer, @grumpygamer is pretty active.

Literature fan? Im a fan of @MicroSFF . And @neilhimself do sometimes reply there.

BurnedDonutHole,

Thank you.

TeaHands,
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Kind of completely depends on what topics you find “interesting”. I never quite got the point of following people, myself, it’s why I wasn’t on Twitter. But thankfully on Mastodon you can follow topics via hashtags instead and just dip into the interesting convos without having to deal with whatever other nonsense people talk about on a daily basis cluttering up your feed.

Interestingly that’s also how Twitter used to work, but I understand it’s quite different nowadays so people struggle a bit with changing back to topic-focused.

Royalish,

Would you mind sharing how to follow hashtags? Couldn’t figure it out n the mobile app.

emptyother,
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Yeah no, the default app doesn’t have this feature for some weird unknown reason.

devdad,

Is mastodon worth signing up for, as a content creator?

I used to be a pretty avid tweeter - I’d post random things related to my job (software engineer), like gotchas I encountered, new articles I’d written etc etc, but I left Twitter when a certain somebody took over.

I’m not bothered about a large following, but I did enjoy randomly helping people that would see my tweets and fix their issue / help with the thing they were working on.

Zo0,
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For sure, peoples’ only gripes with Mastodon is that it only has chronological timeline, which I personally prefer over Algorithms.

emptyother,
@emptyother@lemmy.world avatar

If you did, I’d absolutely follow you. Stuff like that is fun to read. @emptyother Im not big on asking for help though.

devdad,

I did end up creating an account, but I’m not sure about posting my handle here as I want to keep the things separate (especially as I’m using my name on mastodon).

9up999,

Tokyo camera club

BurnedDonutHole,

Thank you.

reallyzen,
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Finding stuff on Mastodon is more about hashtags. Eventually, by subscribing to you’re interested in, you will discover accounts worth following. The Tusky app allows you to subscribe to hashtags like to an account. I don’t follow people anymore, I follow topics!

Aurenkin,

Is this something that’s currently missing from the official app or am I just dumb?

das,
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I think it is on android still? In which case I recommend megladon. It’s a fork of the official app with more features, like following hashtags.

I thought all the third party apps were really ugly, so I was happy to find out about this

Aurenkin,

Thanks for the recommendation, just installed Megalodon and it works a treat 👍

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