As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users
As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users
While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of a significant refresh of its Android app. The new app, released over the weekend, features a complete Material You redesign — Google’s de...
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I did open a Mastodon account. But don't use it much 😶
I made one at the same time I joined Lemmy but Mastodon seems like a ghost town
I'm so confused by comments like this. I use Mastodon every day and it seems pretty active to me.
You probably found a bunch of people with niche (if any) interests and/or friends from Twitter or other social media who are active enough for your feed to be populated. A lot of people use twitter to follow news, celebrities, journalists and shitposting accounts with large following as there's lots of discussions under tweets with massive reach. Most people don't interact themselves at all but just scroll. Mastodon doesn't have these big accounts as of now so there's not much activity for the majority of regular twitter users.
Care to share some tips for someone that's new to Mastodon? I've made an account but I've got nobody to follow on there and trying to discover new people seems fruitless because of how different the search on Mastodon is.
Start following a few hashtags. That will give you a solid starting point.
Hadn't thought about that. Thanks for the suggestion!
Follow some hashtags. Makes it active very quickly and lets you find accounts to follow.
It seems like Mastodon and Twitter operates on different principles or I am missing something.