John S Russell on Nostr: I see a lot of people complaining about Mastodon being "dry" or "no fun" or similar. ...
I see a lot of people complaining about Mastodon being "dry" or "no fun" or similar. I thought this a bit when I started, too. This is actually really easy to fix! Here's my advice to get a worthwhile Mastodon feed (as a cis white tech bro) ...
(1) Do not follow other cis white tech bros.
(2) I mean, UNLESS you know them personally or they make something you are interested in. Otherwise, NO.
(3) Follow EVERY black person, every māori person, every queer, trans, furry, etc, person you see or know of on here. Just do it, they're so much cooler and so more interesting than you, for reals, it's amazing.
(4) This will have already improved things immensely. But now it's time for the special sauce cheat: Use a tool like Followgraph to see who all the people you currently follow think is worth following. Grab the top 40 or 50 of the resulting list, and follow them.
That's it. Done. You will now have a succulent Mastodon experience.
(NOTE: This advice won't work for racists and terfs and ACT voters and similar such fuckwits. Piss off back to Twitter.)
(1) Do not follow other cis white tech bros.
(2) I mean, UNLESS you know them personally or they make something you are interested in. Otherwise, NO.
(3) Follow EVERY black person, every māori person, every queer, trans, furry, etc, person you see or know of on here. Just do it, they're so much cooler and so more interesting than you, for reals, it's amazing.
(4) This will have already improved things immensely. But now it's time for the special sauce cheat: Use a tool like Followgraph to see who all the people you currently follow think is worth following. Grab the top 40 or 50 of the resulting list, and follow them.
That's it. Done. You will now have a succulent Mastodon experience.
(NOTE: This advice won't work for racists and terfs and ACT voters and similar such fuckwits. Piss off back to Twitter.)