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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg (arstechnica.com)
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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mastodon could definitely do with some more discovery methods. Hopefully something like bluesky's starter packs get implemented eventually (but I understand why they aren't rushing it, there are abuse risks).

Best approach for now on mastodon is to follow all the hash tags you're interested in, and then follow everyone in your feed who posts anything interesting. Takes a few weeks to ramp up, I guess. My feed got good once I was following around 1k users. You can always unfollow if someone's annoying.

[–] rascalnikov@literature.cafe 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks for the tip -- new to fediverse altogether and my most annoying challenge is the social aspect of finding people to connect with and making an interesting feed! Lemmy has been the easiest; right above friendica!

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, Lemmy is good because of the topic and threading focus. Mastodon seems better for exploring lots of issues. I'm finding them fairly complementary, they cover different bases.

Still need something I can pull my IRL friends in with though. Pixelfed might work for people who are used to Instagram, but I think it's probably still a bit sparse content wise.

[–] rascalnikov@literature.cafe 2 points 14 hours ago

I’m starting to realize that too. I might be more active on one than the other but it’s nice to have them all because it seems like a fuller experience; I am starting to see how they are complimentary.

I think either mastodon or pixelfed. I’m sure we are due to get a specific crowd — just from the political climate at the moment.