On the iOS app, is there a way to see a “trending feed” or something that that lets me see beyond who I’ve followed? I followed like one or two people and it feels like my feed now only ever shows stuff from them now.
Maybe I just like the Lemmy/reddit style of social media better. It makes more sense to my brain.
My favorite part about the fediverse is that you get to explore social media without feeling pressured, manipulated or like you have to do a lengthy sign up process. It encourages you to try different mediums of social media and find one that vibes with you.
Mastodon is more like a garden than a grocery store. If you spend the time to slowly build your network by following interesting people and hashtags, Mastodon can be an amazing experience where you actually have real human interactions.
It’s not good for viral marketing or mass produced content in my opinion, but if you start by following a few people that boost a lot of other posts, then you’ll find content in time. Every time you see an interesting post, follow that person. If it later turns out that it’s not for you you can unfollow it and it’s not a big deal.
I don't have iOS but you can see trending hashtags on the web so maybe there's an equivalent on the app? You could also see all the latest post from you server and the entire Mastodon.
The best way to diversify the timeline for me is to directly follow tags of things you like.
I don’t use the official app. However if you would like to try out Ice Cubes that would be another fully open-source and free as in beer and speech app which has trending hashtags, trending posts, and suggested users in it’s search tab.
The algorithms it uses are pretty simple and fully auditable. I think it’s mostly just tags with the most posts in the 24 hours etc. Discovering important news like back in the days on Twitter works the same with this feature.
I read only one subreddit still and it is Am I The Asshole, it is very easy to spot the ads because only one add matches the format of the posts. Anything that doesn’t start with AITA is an ad.
That gives me way more time to read books that I have been putting off. Starting with a few books by Cory Doctorow who coined that term enshittification.
It is a lot easier to make time for reading when watching a video will mean an ad before, during, and after every 5 minute clip. I subscribe to a few news shows so I can listen to them as podcasts while I work to support without having ads.
Hey wait a minute where is the sea of righties that converge en masse every time a meme posts, bitching about all the political memes being posted, demanding political memes be banned and those meme creators start their own community?
Could it possibly be that those people are being disingenuous and are totally cool with political memes so long as they agree, and only want to ban the politics they don’t like?
47 years ago, my 4th grade (US) teacher made me eat the school cafeteria’s cole slaw, never mind that I told her I really don’t like cole slaw. Threw it right up! My mother was pretty mad at my teacher for that…
“I am the Lorax, I speak for trees, the trees are fucking pissed and the industrial revolution has had disastrous consequences for human society and planet Earth”.
The guy on the bottom said something like that I think.
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