SarahWorkflow: Login. No new notifications. Check home. No interesting conversations. Conclusion: tumbleweed. @dogtrax @tellio @lauraritchie
dogtrax@Nomadwarmachine @lauraritchie @tellio Perhaps, too, a strategy is to try to find connections here you don't have elsewhere. I have a center of friends that I know but I am conscious of trying to follow folks I don't know, in the fields of art and music and more.
Tellio@dogtrax @lauraritchie @Nomadwarmachine This is very much my strategy. I find people to read and follow every day in both the local and federated time lines. Sometimes I just comment and not follow. I never do that in birdland. At the core of my work here is #smallstories. I really was inspired by Teju Coles' Blind Spot. I have been dissecting his small stories and mimicking them as part of my morning practice
tutormentor1@tellio @dogtrax @lauraritchie @Nomadwarmachine
I spend a little time every day in Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and now Mastodon, to see what is being posted in my feeds and by people I have been connecting with.
I find nuggets of value that accumulate over time.
However, in my personal/professional efforts of helping inner city kids, I still find too few people sharing in any of these feeds.
I'm still figuring out all of these, Mastodon included. #smallstories and similar tags helps.
Kate@dogtrax @tellio @lauraritchie @Nomadwarmachine I think this also works for me. Mastodon has connected me to people I didn't know and wouldn't have met. And I think while Twitter accustomed me to a busy pace of content streaming at me, and it took a while to accept that here you might walk a mile to the mailbox and seemingly not find anything, if I just wait quietly there's always something that comes along that's worth thinking about without rushing.