Kikis delivery service is the best anime film to every be created and there isnt even a close second
@Drake Bold Statement, but a respectable opinion
@wizard i just realized how to favorite toots
@Drake nice, now you can donate clout to whoever you want
@wizard so just you, considering you’re the only active person that I follow. I don’t even know how I follow those other people
@Drake You'll find them eventually!

It might help to make an account on another instance, but I've got 0 idea about which ones to recommend to the average Joe, or even how to find them if you don't know what's out there.

If you post / reply to enough stuff, people will eventually notice even if you get drowned out a lot in mastosoc. I got my initial follower / following base by posting anime characters back in 2017.
@wizard another instance? Isnt mastodon.social the only site?
@Drake ahh, I see. Let me find a good video or smth to explain it. The tldr is "no," there are a bunch of Mastodon sites that can all talk to each other and be run by anyone.
@Drake It's kind of like email, you can send an email to your friend's gmail account even though you use microsoft's outlook.

Even now, I'm running my own site, https://xyzzy.link and talking to you on https://mastodon.social.

I found a couple videos but none of them describe it without a bunch of other nonsense so I guess that's really the rundown. Of course, you can keep looking into it and there are layers of complexity, but don't worry about it.
Akkoma

@wizard woahhh this is so bizarre...but cool
@Drake Yeah it's really neat and has a lot of cool little nuances! Like people from different sites (called 'instances') all agree to different rules, so the culture varies wildly between them.
@wizard im definitely going to have to look into this some more..lol
@Drake It's a real rabbit hole, one of the Internet's best kept secrets imo. It's definitely really hard to get into, especially if you're just expecting to replace your twitter presence. It's its own thing.
@wizard thats definitely what im trying to do lol. Twitter is full of a bunch of lying ass clout chasers and people who think they know what’s best for everyone else
@Drake I mean, it's definitely not a 1 to 1 replacement. Lots of people use Twitter to follow the news, their favorite brands, meme accounts, etc and literally none of those things exist here. You won't find your favorite celebrity or irl friends here.

It's all people looking to have a good time and post about their interests. If you're looking for /social/ media, that's here. If you're looking for social /media/, that's Twitter. I'm being a bit biased I guess, but it's at least true that the culture is wildly different at least.