✊I Follow liberally!
More follows has zero algorithm penalty here. There is no algorithm (spoon). The more people I follow, the more interesting my feeds get. There are good tools for management of everything, so be adventurous & follow lots of different folk.
🤛I can look at different feeds like local, federated, home, and more.
Ch.24
On the #Fedi a far greater variety of topics of conversation happen. This is because there aren't algorithms trying to 'drive engagement' by click-baiting us toward a narrow set of extreme takes about today's small range of topics/conversations.
There are various ways of seeing trends of conversation, on our local server, various trending hashtags access, like explore sections or trending widgets in our chosen front end.
I waited a decade & half? for an edit button on a major corporate media silo (#Twitter). When it finally arrived it required a monthly fee, and by then I had already left some time ago!
There are tons of clever people making things all the time on the #Fedi. This is part of it's strength. The #Fediverse actually innovates much faster and also in more interesting iterations and directions than the monetization driven corporate social media silos. Decisions made for users, are better for users, than decisions made for shareholders.
There are a lot of different interesting front end projects. These let us access our home servers via an app or an alternate webpage front end.
#Icecubes#Mona#Tusky#Elk are a few examples of #Mastodon front end projects. Many of these have some unique features that vanilla webpage Mastodon doesn't yet.
We can always access our servers by just typing their address in to an internet browser to get the regular webpage frontend too.
Everything is all connected, these are just a few examples of additional ways of navigating & experiencing. So we can use several routes, depending on need, mood or device. Regardless of which frontend we use, our account(s) remain the same so it's safe to experiment and try things out. #Help#HelpThread#Welcome#New#Newbies#NewHere#FediTips
@RussInCheshire
Hi Russ!
Welcome over.
You should follow a lot more people here. It's very much horizontal community based, lowly serfs vs social overlords don't fly here 😁
No algorithms, no visibility drawbacks to following more people.
👊I know bookmarks!
Bookmark a post via an icon or 3 dots flyout menu to return to something useful.
✊Follow liberally!
More follows has zero algorithm penalty here. Is no algorithm. More people I follow, more interesting my feeds get. There are good tools for management.
Ch.13
I realise #Fediverse is an evolving co-operating culture with common protocol linking many things. No platform is trying to lock up all my attention in a walled garden.
I can have several accounts, use several platforms keep my circles across all & I'm free to move around.
On phone tablet desktop, I can have apps or open simple browser window +type my instance's name. Many ways to login & communicate across the #Fediverse