I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.

Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.

  • LCPEnglish
    43•1 year ago

    For Mastodon, you gotta find the hashtags about the things you care about.

    For Lemmy, you gotta put in the work to raise the communities you care about. If there are existing communities, post and comment in them. If there isn’t a community about your interest - and if you’re willing - create and maintain them. The people will come.

    I’m all in on the fediverse, and want to watch it flourish.

    • TroyEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      For Lemmy: Go to “all” and sort by New Comments. Find additional communities you like. Subscribe. Comment. Vote. Post. Now your front-page is more for you.

      I can’t wait for the weighted algo in the new release, which increases the weighting of posts from smaller communities so they don’t get drowned out. In the meantime, I guess I’ll look at more risa memes ;)

      • @Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Didn’t know they’re working on implementing that, sounds like a very good change. I noticed that smaller communities kinda get “drowned out” by bigger ones as well.

      • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I must be doing something wrong because mastodon.social instance has like max 50 things on a hashtag, no local content, and I can’t find anything interesting browsing “posts.”

        Also, you can’t browse any other instances on the app. I have pretty much stopped using it. It’s 80% US politics

        • TroyEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I don’t browse Mastodon – twitter never appealed to me, so it’s replacements don’t either. So I cannot comment on the technicalities. However, this thread you’re replying to is from Lemmy, so you’re clearly accessing at least one other instance (a Lemmy instance in this case, rather than a Mastodon instance).

    • @r036@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      What other federated platforms do you look into? Most of the the reddit communities I use to be a part of are super tiny on lemmy.

      • LCPEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        There’s Pixelfed which is a fediverse alternative to Instagram, but I don’t use it currently as I don’t share my photography online as LCP.

        Peertube is a YouTube alternative but I’m not using that currently as well.

        Other than them, there are other fediverse platforms that are basically Mastodon-like or Lemmy-like.

        Things are fairly wonky right now, but I believe with time, effort and funding many if not all of the fediverse’s issues can be resolved.

        Which Lemmy communities are you a part of that are currently tiny? I can lend a hand in posting/commenting there and keeping them active.