Pick a toot that resonates with you and open it up. See who commented, or retooted it. Look at those people's profiles. Follow them.
Look at their older toots and follow the people whose comments on those toots pique your interest.
I've been here a month & have a global circle, not one of whom I knew before coming here. #IFollowTheCrumbs
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How to say number "92" in European countries
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Still astounds me that something so small can hold that much data. #AlmostBoomerButNotQuite
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This is probably one of my most technically successful escalator portraits. Taken at Bank station with a 0.8 second exposure. Featuring artist Maddie. We were very lucky with recurring colours.
#mastoart #londonunderground #longexposure #london #escalators #photography #photo #potd #streetphotography #art #underground #uk #streetphoto
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The actress—who has booked a secret role in the ‘Star Wars’ film ‘The Acolyte’—discusses growing up alongside her ‘His Dark Materials’ character, Lyra.Max Gao (W Magazine)
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New Follower Notification
For a while I haven't seen any 'New Follower' notifications even though the number of followers on the Contacts page has gone slightly up. Is there a setting I may have accidentally turned off? I can't find any. I am using an account type 'Personal', sub type 'Soapbox' (so follow requests are automatically accepted and not shown) and the server is on the stable version 2022.10.
Do these notifications work for others?
Is there a way to sort the followers on the Contacts page with the newest first, instead of alphabetically? That would help too.
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix
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Loving Wednesday on Netflix.
This will not surprise some of you.
She is verily the patron saint of constitutional commentary.
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You could write an environmental law blog published half way through each working week called
Wednesday's Allen-Green
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Bernice Hillier
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Sheldon
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •lists do have their place though and the lack of public lists and even the way lists work on Mastodon is one of the pain points I'm having.
There's stuff I don't want to stare at all day, but if I want it within reach I have to follow it and those accounts end up taking over my feed.
Anyone have a solution besides multiple accounts? I just tried creating a list and then muting accounts I don't want dominating my regular feed, but it also muted them in the list too.
Mike Nelson Pedde
in reply to Sheldon • • •The Duality of Xan
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •KayhrynTink
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Eggs-Act-Ta-Lee!
Having a bit of an Adventure in yer online travels here ought to be the BEST way to find peeps who might have content U like.
It will take time to rebuild an entire complement of followers, but have patience (ME is told Good things come to those who wait!)
☺️
Ms AB ☕
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
Unknown parent • • •I'm way happier adding my own here, but then, I'm a "found family" kind of person too. ☺️
Jonathan Blackshire
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Jonathan Blackshire • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Jonathan Blackshire • • •followed
Jonathan Blackshire
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Dziadek Mick 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Dziadek Mick 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 • • •KaraOhki
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
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in reply to KaraOhki • • •CherylA
in reply to KaraOhki • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to CherylA • • •CherylA
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Raymond Barbour 🇿🇦
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Kevin Danks
in reply to Raymond Barbour 🇿🇦 • • •@RaymondBarbour @juneg
I wonder if something needs to be implemented on the server side for this to work. I don't see the person with plus sign in either the browser or in Tusky, but I know my instance has yet to be upgraded to v4.1. Perhaps that will give me the hashtag following functionality.
KaraOhki
in reply to Kevin Danks • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to KaraOhki • • •KaraOhki
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Martin K.
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Martin K. • • •Matthias Lehmann
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Matthias Lehmann • • •Joe Fry
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •1. This is new to them, give them time.
2. People use social media for different purposes, so what works for you may not work for them.
I have complained of this same issue. I use social media mostly to hear about news as it's happening. On the bird site, I followed major news organizations and a handful of journalists who often broke stories that interested me. So just following someone who posted a comment I appreciate doesn't get me what I want.
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Joe Fry • • •@joefry oh for sure ☺️ this post wasn't meant for everyone. And I apologize if the tone offended. It wasn't intended. I was surprised and remarked on that.
As I stated in the op, I'm new here myself (not from the birb, but new nonetheless). I didn't know this toot would go viral, it took on a life of its own. I'm actually on a rather small instance, so that was a surprise.
TLDR: to each their own, but for *social* users, the above might be helpful. Or not, and that's ok too☺️
Joe Fry
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •no apology necessary, but I appreciate that you would bother (obviously not a Twitter user; you wouldn't fit in, most would insult a critical response long before they apologized ).
I really just used your post as an excuse to vent my frustration at how hard it has been to find the right people to follow so that I can leave Twitter once and for all and not feel like I am missing things. But I think it will get there. Just need the major news networks to make the jump.
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Joe Fry • • •I follow
@aljazeera
@ap
@GovTrack @NPR_USNews and several local US news sources.
also @jeff has been responsible for bringing many news sources to the fedi so a follow there will probably net you some more sources. Happy hunting
Resuna
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •The way Facebook and Twitter push engagement and suggest followers and Gogle Plus didn't may have been why a lot of people saw it as a wasteland. You didn't see any traffic if you didn't look for it.
Mastodon has the local feed to possibly prevent that from happening, but I guess that's not enough for some people.
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Resuna • • •StuartB
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •The thing I'm amazed at is the number of people who came here because they didn't like what Birdsite had suddenly become, then spend all their time recreating their network from there, and bringing over all the negativity and toxicity they claimed they were moving to avoid.
I've unfollowed almost all of the Twitter diaspora I was following because of the crossposters and RTs that they use instead of actually getting to know this platform.
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
in reply to StuartB • • •@stuartb I've been noticing a certain ... ragged-edginess ... to the Fediverse over the past few weeks. A bit like the stale beer and cigarette smoke smell of a bar the morning after. Not entirely pleasant.
Been wondering if I should bother mentioning it or not. This as someone who'd not been on Birdsite, though it has some overtones of G+ (of whom I'm seeing a number of familiar faces appear here who'd not been present previously).
I'm also highly aware that individual perceptions of social networks vary tremendously, and that any one person's experience, whilst legitimate of itself, is also not an indication of the whole or of any other person's view. Who and what you follow and/or block has a tremendous impact, none of us see more than a tiny fraction of the whole, though there may be some part of that fraction which is widely shared.
(Mass media are ... complicated.)
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StuartB
in reply to Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ • • •Yeah, it's one of those things I've been trying (and often failing) to NOT talk about over the last few weeks - the way the influx of new users has changed this place, not always for the better.
The moderation tools we have at our disposal are far better than anything elsewhere, IMO, but there is also a lot of peer pressure NOT to use them, at least as far as the newcomers are concerned.
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Unknown parent • • •Jessica :infinity_rainbow:
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •As someone following around 1,300 users, it really does surprise me people struggle to populate their timeline 😅
There are just so many fascinating people here!
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in reply to Jessica :infinity_rainbow: • • •Mason, reluctant american
Unknown parent • • •Dwinle
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in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Hughster
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Hughster • • •I get where you are coming from, and I have heard that complaint many times on here. For me though, I never follow others directly through follow lists (on this site or any other) because I don't trust other people's tastes that much 😅 I'd much rather curate my own through interactions. I hope that you do find an easy way to navigate follows that works for you though. My feed is infinitely more fun now that I've found "my people" ☺️
Natasha 🇪🇺
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Achievement unlocked: "Born-again pachyderm 🐘 " 😂
I haven't checked follow lists since assembling an initial group to get me up and going in the first few days
Hughster
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Jonathan Kamens 86 47
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •"See who commented, or retooted it."
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it's not possible on #Mastodon to see who boosted a post? I thought that was an intentional design decision to discourage clout-chasing.
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47 • • •Thank you for pointing that out. I have worded it poorly. When looking at people's interactions with a toot, those who comment leave crumbs. If I click their page, I can see what they boosted. Those boosts lead to more crumbs. But I believe that you are technically correct that one cannot click on a given toot and see who boosted/retooted it from the op itself.
Jonathan Kamens 86 47
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in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47 • • •G Caldwell
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •The Spoonless Kitchen
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •josé
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Another trick is to switch to a server that looks interesting, and scroll through the latest posts there.
I started trying to follow the folks I followed on the birdsite and in a couple of weeks ended up with a much more interesting follow list.
KeladryStan :vpelican:
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in reply to KeladryStan :vpelican: • • •Wendy MsGator 🐊
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •I found some in here with whom I had previously spoken on the birdsite. But, yes, you are right, it's the random post scrolling down that catches my eye, and I hit Follow and try to engage with them - compliment a photograph, laugh at a joke, discuss an issue.
I really feel that the world is your oyster on Mastodon and here be pearls. Not the famous people, just those who look at this community and want to build on it.
Jason Self
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in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Jdv63
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •hikewithrichard
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •hikewithrichard
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Adam Curry :pci: :pc2blue:
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •MyNameIsYeff :verified:
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Nine-Toed Sloth 🦥 🦥 🦥
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Jesus, long ass thread, lol. But, like the original #toot suggests, this is a great thing!
Love the hashtag, btw 🙂
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Nine-Toed Sloth 🦥 🦥 🦥 • • •Eggmont 🐘
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •The people looking for lists are from Law Enforcement. They are phoning it in rather than doing the hard work.
1. Do not get on lists.
2. Never answer the door.
3. Build a secret room. Put a blank diary in it, just in case.
4. Stock up on Toaster Waffles.
🦉The Ows are Watching🦉
#conspiracy #IwasNeverHere
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in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to CherylA • • •Mark Rogaski
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Clwhitt
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in reply to Clwhitt • • •Laurie S
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Unknown parent • • •Pseudo Nym
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Stargeezer Smith
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Sean
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mx. Kat Terban, MSc
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Mx. Kat Terban, MSc • • •Lizzy :heart_trans:
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in reply to Lizzy :heart_trans: • • •Lizzy :heart_trans:
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •DeFrisselle ☑️
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Dr Configa (PhD)
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •WWarped
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to WWarped • • •WWarped
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Totally agree. I feel comfortable here, and actions after RaspPi spy cop just cemented this is the right place for me.
It's taking time to adjust that I can chat more here, without creating aggravation. Almost anything at the other place would create a scene of angry users.
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to WWarped • • •Mark Vos
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Interesting observation. I opened a twitter account in 2009, followed about 600 people, and then I didn't use it again as my feed was full of stuff.
I've just joined Mastodon, and I'm learning the craft of ensuring my follow list is carefully curated as that defines my experience here. It has taken me a while to realise that and be super picky on who to follow rather than just follow anyone. If I am following someone, there is a reason why.
Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Mark Vos • • •I started that way here too, but I found that some of my most interesting connections have come not from those I directly followed initially, but rather those they responded to or boosted. Also, it's been super easy to mute or unfollow people, and no one complains. They are all too busy looking at all the new any shiny posts to miss me commenting on their stuff 😅
I wish for you, the curated feed of your dreams. It's not hard to do here. The people are fantastic.
Mark Vos
in reply to Mason, reluctant american • • •Mason, reluctant american
in reply to Mark Vos • • •Cognissart has moved
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