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Am I using Mastodon wrong or is it just boring and lifeless by default?
90% of every post I see is news, an advertisement, or some kind of bot. There are barely any real people on any of the feeds and it’s a depressing experience. Am I doing something wrong?
i tried to do mastodon a couple times but i came to the same conclusion as you. tbh it’s a lot easier for me to just follow the few people on mastodon who actually matter through rss than it is for me to get a good mastodon feed
Im not sure I dont use mastodon much,
The thing about mastodon is that it doesn’t have an algorithm to put recommended posts into your feed like the “normal” micro-blogging social medias you might be used to. By default, the feed shows only posts from accounts you are subscribed to in chronological order, so if you aren’t subscribed to anything, it won’t show you anything. You need to build your feed yourself by going out of your way to find accounts you want to see posts from.