Welcome everyone! Some information about #Mastodon for #academics:

1) There are disciplinary groups that you can follow. If you tag them, they share your post with the community. Some examples: @sociology @edutooters @politicalscience @communicationscholars

2) Mastodon's search function only works with hashtags so you should use them (you can also follow them).

3) There are disciplinary and interdisciplinary lists of academics: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
You can also easily ask to be added.