Noticing a lot of weekend chatter about helping new people onboard and I literally cannot stress the enough - the experience changes entirely once you follow about 200 people.
Then your home timeline fills up, and you find more people to follow/weed out some of the randos you followed at first.
This place is NOT going to get "busier" if you do not follow people; there are so many posts going on that you are not seeing.
Use "Federated" and "Local" find ppl; follow liberally. It works.
Okay so I'm on desktop, they are off to the right - where you see the red box in this screenshot.
If that doesn't help, I can retoot your post and see if someone using the same app as you are knows; I literally do not have a phone on me atm.
@BlotchedEmerald I mean if I were using an app that didn't have buttons for two of my three timelines, I'd find a new app - so I'm not sure they aren't there somewhere; they literally have to be or it doesn't work.
Gimme a second I'll retweet and see if someone with a phone knows.
@BlotchedEmerald @AnarchoNinaWrites I think you should see this as a strength. The platform isn't really Mastodon, it's a protocol called ActivityPub, and having a wide variety of apps that talk to ActivityPub servers is exactly the way it's supposed to work.
In fact there was resistance to having an "official" Mastodon app for this reason. It's fairly new, it's unfinished in some ways, and they have been caught float-footed by the Twitter implosion.
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