I still don't know how to use mastodon, I feel like I'm only here to share my stuff and read replies, and less so any kind of discovery of following and engaging with other people's stuff
it seems like there's only a chronological feed of those you follow (which I usually don't like because it skews to the most active people), and a generic feed for your instance (pretty much useless), but no algorithmic discovery thing?
@acegikmo honestly, i think what you're looking for doesn't mesh with a lot of the base design of mastodon. Algorithmic feeds aren't any less possible here than on bsky but it would rack up costs for the servers, which seem to be kept barebones on purpose to avoid that. bsky can eat that cost with venture capital.
The local timeline functions more like a discord server to me. It's pretty good at being bad to advertise on. I assume that for a content creator that makes a social medium less interesting.
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