1: There's no algorithm to fill your Home feed for you. You must explore.
2: What are the feeds?
"Home" is who and what you explicitly follow
"This server" is everyone on your instance
"Other servers" is everyone followed by anyone on your instance.
3: #Hashtags are important here, and can be followed. To do so, search for one, then click the "add" icon in the search results bar.
4: Follow (and unfollow) with abandon! Follow people who boost a lot, that helps you find stuff. But you can also follow people and choose not to see their boosts, see first photo.
ALSO: It's important to set up your profile and post an introduction if you want people to follow back. And put hashtags of your interests in that introduction post so people can find you!
Load 'em up, it's okay.
Finally, if you are into news, here's a thread, I have updated it a few times so ignore the post dates, we have edit here so they're more fresh than that:
@joewynne I'm trying to be at least a little less Mastodon-only than that. But most people in this spike right now are coming to Mastodon and from Twitter, so ... I tailored appropriately.
But everything I said will work for everything, adjusted for the UI. So hopefully it's generally useful too.
(Apologies again for hashtag spam, I'm trying to help the new influx from #TwitterDown find people and things)
#BlackMastodon is a good start. See also #BlackFedi (since there's more here than Mastodon) and here are a few high profile accounts of interest, PLEASE TELL ME if I am overstepping any bounds here:
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