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Since I've been on Lemmy, I don't know what my use is for Mastodon anymore. It's dead on there anyway. I don't have anyone to talk to and nobody responds to my posts.

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[-] Jerry@feddit.online 41 points 1 year ago

You have to use hashtags on Mastodon if you want your messages to be seen because there is no AI to fill timelines. People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

And, you control your own timeline by following hashtags, following people, and searching for hashtags. This way, unlike Twitter, your timeline only has posts that you are interested in. Once you get this set up, it's quite nice to only see posts that you like reading, without advertising and without posts meant to enrage you.

Also you can use https://fedi.directory to find great people to follow.

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

People follow hashtags and search for them. Then you'll get likes and boosts.

How do I follow hashtags? I am using the official Mastodon app for Android.

[-] USSMojave@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

You should consider switching to Megalodon. It's a fork of the official Mastodon app so it's already what you're used to but adds features like following and pinning hashtags as we as supporting markdown in posts (if your instance is using glitch-soc)

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I will check it out, is following hashtags a client side feature or OG webpage supports it?

[-] CaptainJanegay@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The web client supports it too, as do other apps like Tusky and Ivory. The official app is just a weird outlier.

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