One piece of advice for people new to #mastodon: follow capriciously. People are interesting! You lose nothing by following anyone who posts something you like. And then: unfollow just as quickly. Seriously. Nobody cares. You are creating a stream of things you're giving your attention to. You don't owe anyone your attention.

Follow fast, unfollow faster. Make this place a place you wanna be.

@fraying The thing is, this is something everyone used to do on Birdsite for years without complaint until The Algorithm came along and made all those decisions for us. It would simply suppress accounts you followed that it didn't think kept you engaged, and you'd end up following thousands but only seeing a handful regularly—so it's more like rediscovering the past than learning something new.