i guess i just experienced one of the biggest downsides to the fediverse that people have been talking about. instance suddenly disappeared with no warning. i guess i’ve lost my follow list
When I select to log in to my account, I get sent to a page with which I log in. After that, it doesn’t switch back to the app, but it saltays within that website page and goes into the -change the password- section. Does this happen because I have not yet been accepted on the server (as stated in the yellow box)?
I recently suggested Mastodon to a friend and she is using it on IOS. She sent me a picture of her visiting an account and the name shows as @username@mastodon.social...
It sounds like you just want standard social media and its standard parasocial relationships. What appeals to you about fediverse that has you trying it in the first place?
Followgraph looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon, and then the people they follow. Then it sorts them by the number of mutuals, or otherwise by how popular those accounts are. It then shows the list with Mastodon links to follow them.
It mainly depends on your likes. What i did was to find one or two accounts related to my favourite topic and then checking their “following” tab. It really helps to Fill my feed
Also, most accounts boost other accounts/ post, which also acts as a way for me to discover accounts.
Mastodon does not have an algorithm to recommend content. Instead it provides you with a feature to “follow” hashtags, and will populate your feed with any posts that have these hashtags.
Begin by searching for hashtags on topics you are interested in, e.g. #fediverse. In the search results it will list matching hashtags and matching accounts.
If there are any matching hashtags, click on the hashtag search result,
then at the top of the next screen you should see a button that says “Follow this hashtag”
Repeat these steps for every hashtag you think you might like to see.
The advantage of following hashtags is that you will see all posts from all people that post with that hashtag, even if you are not following those people. This allows you to discover people who regularly post content that is interesting to you.
query for an indonesian person that recently came up:
With China building islands, threatening neighbors and doing the whole 9-dash-drama, oh and threatening Taiwan, how do countries further south in the pacific react to these kinds of shenanigans? Obviously one person doesn’t speak for the whole country but yeah, what’s the vibe like?
