• djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    +1 for following hashtags. I love music, so I follow #NowPlaying, #Punk, #Metal, etc… #BelieveInFilm is good for nice photography, #BloomScrolling for flowers, and so on.

    Pretty soon you’ll start recognising accounts, so you start to follow them. Before you know it you’re following a bunch of people.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      All kinds of shit. That’s why I didn’t specify. I like people who are passionate about a thing.

      In a more general sense, I find myself returning to science, science fiction and computers(old, new, hardware, software)

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
    7·
    3 days ago

    First and foremost, I recommend follow topic #hashtags and using that as a springboard to find interesting people to follow.

    Follow your hobbies and interests. Follow your favorite shows and games. And so on.

  • leadore@lemmy.world
    6·
    12 hours ago

    FediFollows has a list of hand-curated accounts you can search or browse by category: https://fedi.directory/

    Browsing your instance’s local timeline or the global timeline will give you plenty of posts to read.

    Remember that you can also follow hashtags for things you’re interested in, so you’ll get posts that contain those hashtags in your Home timeline. That’s a good way to find people with similar interests. (when you click on a hashtag to browse, you’ll see a “Follow this hashtag” button)

    There’s also FediGroups.social, a server where there are accounts for interest groups that you follow just like you would any other account. When you post on the topic of interest, you mention the group account and it will automatically boost the post so that it appears in the timeline of everyone else who follows that group account–and vice versa, you’ll see the posts from others who mention the group.

    I’d start with just following some hashtags and accounts you find on FediFollows, then once you start seeing their posts and the replies, you’ll find more people.

    edit: I had forgotten one other place you can browse through categories to find accounts: https://communitywiki.org/trunk

  • Luc@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    Depends what you’re interested in…

    Lacking that information, how I went about it:

    • advertise that you have Mastodon so people can follow you
    • I knew two persons so I followed them and see who they boost and @mention
    • I browsed the local and the federated timelines
    • for every particularly interesting post or mention (raise the bar as you follow more people), check out the profile that posted it and whether you’re interested in following them
    • click on hashtags that sound interesting and repeat the previous step
    • look for some common (nick/short)names of your city/area/country as hashtag and check if anyone uses that already. Might be worth following (you can follow hashtags, not just people). I find that it’s relatively low quality, but any high quality local posts are often quite useful, so…
    • don’t be afraid to unfollow if a profile turns out to be less interesting than expected!

    Not a one-day process of course, but pretty quickly I got my timeline fuller than the amount of time I want to spend browsing microblogs. From there I’ve mostly been looking at profiles that show up via boosts, very rarely looking at the general pool (the server’s timeline) anymore

    Once beyond that initial stage, I might recommend having a “list” (the Mastodon feature) where you add people of whom you want to see every post. For me, that’s direct friends, a weekly comic I enjoy, and some people who don’t post much but whose posts are nearly always worth seeing. Iirc the default behavior is that people in lists are hidden from your main timeline but you can disabled that

    Tusky is the client I use. The first tab is general timeline, second tab is my “see all posts” list, third is inbox, then a hashtag I follow, then bookmarks, and that’s it. Works really well for me. Hope you find (some of) this setup useful as well!

  • Gexilla@lemmy.zip
    3·
    3 days ago

    You can follow an account like

    @[email protected]

    And any of their associated accounts. I’ve even set up a dedicated list with my PeerTube “subscriptions” in a single feed on Mastodon.