I'm getting an impression that the usual #mastodon advice of following hashtags is an attempt to replicate the algorithmic feed of #Twitter without its benefits. Meaning, it's an attempt to boost discoverability of toots/discussions/people you might be interested in. But, it's impossible to catch up with everything posted under a hashtag, and interesting toots are buried under the piles of irrelevant (for you) stuff.
Another thing I realized is that I practically don't use the local feed. If I were on a #emacs instance, for example, my local feed would be all emacs people (pretty aligned with my interests) but it still does not solve the problem of discovering stuff related to other interests... What are people's strategies regarding this? Is it common to multi-acc, having basically an account per broad area of interests (e.g. one on a emacs instance, one on a book-readers instance etc)?
@yeti At the risk of pointing out what you already know: in #mastodonel you can press T on a toot and it will open a thread (like this one) with the older posts at the top :)
I cannot understand the global timeline either. But at least I'd like my home timeline neat :) Regarding hashtags, my previous toot was about exactly that: it's too noisy. Maybe I should block more accounts though...
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