@tiffanycli Mastodon feels surprisingly impoverished on exploration, and stumbling upon new people, sites, etc.

Clicking Federated or Local produces rapid strings of mostly non-English toots that I can't engage with.

Clicking #Explore is weirdly a very slow trickle.

Hiding replies sort of kills conversation potential. It doesn't actually feel that *engaging*.

I think this might be more viable on some instances or for some power users but...it doesn't actually replace twitter's UX

@samanthagodwin I think it’s not really fun until you find a good number of people to follow, so your followed feed fills up. A lot of the folks we knew on twitter are here! Try the tools that auto-find the people you followed on twitter.

Local feed depends on your instance. I’m now seeing a lot more relevant posts, using the Mastodon app. I think someone is hand-curating? Unsure.

@tiffanycli This makes sense.

w/r/t local feed:

I've been using the smaller mstdn.social - are you enjoying the local feed on the significantly larger mastodon.social?

I have an account on both instances - I heard mastodon.social got slow to load, but it also clearly has more people I know on it.

Given that I haven't used either account much, switching would seem pretty easy.