Comment on I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
At its best, twitter was group texting, but in public. its evolved into a semi-broadcast form with the expectation that many will read and few will engage, and in both twitter and mastodon the tooling is built for that.
within that, you follow people because they produce content you want, or because you intend to interact. Hashtags are there for topics you are intersted in so you can consume in a more ad-hoc way
MrBakedBeansOnToast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I‘m influenced too heavily by my time one Reddit now. When I tried Mastodon and saw something interesting I wanted to read the comments and engage. But then it’s just silence. I might as well talk to the TV.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want something similar to Reddit you should try Lemmy. Otherwise Mastodon is (pretty much like Twitter) a fire (shout) and forget principle. Sometimes there are conversations going on, where you can engage in, if you like.
PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com 1 year ago
Same experience. If you want people to talk to you on Mastodon you have to insult them LOL that’s how I started getting attention and finally getting fucking followers LOL it’s ridiculous haha