greg "Wingeclipse" v.sky 🖖
vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]Twitter has algorithms to get you engaged. Mastodon does not. So in order to enjoy Mastodon you have to take some time to reach out and find content and follow folks that you enjoy. Don't expect Mastodon to send you random popular posts to keep you engaged, you have to curate your own feed. But this is good! It gives you control.
Well this post has been lovely but it's time to mute it! 
Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈@vv One of the better things, no hate amplifying algorithm is not a bad thing.
cybik 
@vv kind of exactly why I like it
fahru@vv seems like we can't doomscroll like we did on twitter then 😂 (for the good reason!)
Autumn@vv i am more addicted to fedi because of the connections and friendships i've formed here. it feels way more organic and less corporate (made to keep you engaged) than twitter. love it here!
Mike Flugennock@vv I first got onto Mastodon about 4 years ago, and was gratified to not have people I've never heard of and share no interests with me spam-following me, nor see posts totally not related to my interests, appearing in my timeline seemingly by magic, from people I don't follow, nor retweeted by anyone I follow.
TheLadyJessica@vv As it should be! So thankful for this new network!
Pankine
Disneyphile 🐿🐤💻@vv This really sounds like a breath of fresh air! Happy to have migrated over here. 
Stealcase@vv do you have any advice for finding artists you like on other instances without having to create an account or migrate to that instance?
@Stealcase Hashtags are usually helpful, such as [#] Masto Art (without spaces). In the Advanced interface you can set up a column just for a hashtag. Once you follow enough artists they may share art by others, and that helps you find folks too. You could also always go to the explore tab of another instance (e.g. https://mastodon.art/explore ) and follow from there.
Breaker O'Day@vv They can still see everything in the universal feed.
@breaker Yeah, the federated timeline is helpful in many cases, but that will depend on your instance. It only shows posts that your instance knows about -- only posts by users that are being followed by users on your instance. If your instance is on a relay, then it'll also show those posts, which helps a lot. But that still won't get *everything*. And if you're on a single-user instance it's going to look lonely.
@breaker Oh, and posts boosted by your instance's users, too.
Konstantin@vv I think this is one of the best feature of Mastodon. I've been trying it out for a few hours now and it just feels... calm 😌
Tobias@vv FWIW @FediFollows is a really great starting point!
Paul Wilde@vv this is such a good statement.
Above all else, Twitter>-Mastodon converts.... Mastodon is NOT Twitter!
Penny@vv Thanks!
Coprolite9000@vv Your description of how Mastodon works sounds very much like how I use Twitter - everything shown chronologically, 'trending' bar removed and generally avoiding the algorithm...
Sergi Sobrino@vv thanks! That's useful info
Allan@vv and is the best way to have what we really want.
Babypluto@vv love this so much I felt the need to share… I think that’s what I’m doing lol
ChrisJam@vv This is mostly an improvement on Twitter if you ask me, a lot of it's suggested posts drive me mad! Like 1 in 50 I actually fine interesting, the rest I find usually mildly annoying, esp when my feed is FULL of them.