I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts.

Am I missing something, or is the purpose just to shout your opinions into the void? Could any Twitter/Mastodon users explain it to me like I’m 4?

    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      Back when it was twitter before I gave up on it, I only really followed artists and people who I thought were funny so really I was just looking for art to retweet if I liked it enough.

      Obviously most people don’t use it for this but it sucks cause all those artists scattered now across social media- they’re on instagram which I hate using or some of them went to tumblr and now they rarely even update.