AnarchoNinaWritesNov 27, 2022

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.

Show threadLeroy BinksNov 29, 2022
@AnarchoNinaWrites no clue what local means, but I sure as heck hope it doesn't mean actually local, cause their ain't nobody here except me and the trees.
Show threadAnarchoNinaWritesNov 29, 2022
@leroybinks It means all the posts from people on your instance which is "Mastodon.world"
Show threadLeroy Binks
@AnarchoNinaWrites so what's the value in that versus the broader network of instances?
Nov 29, 2022 at 2:54pmWeb
Show threadAnarchoNinaWritesNov 29, 2022

@leroybinks I don't think there necessarily is one if you're on a big broadly categorized server like world; slower information stream I guess?

But if for example you were on a smaller instance of like minded friends; either for a hobby, or profession, or ideological alignment - it would allow you to just read posts from the friends on your cozy server.

I do in fact use Local on "Social" though because it scrolls slower; I am that lady.