So recently learnt about Mastodon, thought I will just try it!
However, I have never used Twitter (ahem, sorry. “X”). I don’t really understand how it all works.
I have followed a few communities/people but all I see is single chat-messages with no replies beneath it and couldn’t really see about what it is unless it’s specific said in the sentence.
Could someone try to explain it a bit, a shorty summary or redirect me to somewhere it is already explained?
Note: I’m using Mammoth app for iOS, for Mastodon.
To get a good feed on Mastodon, you have to set it up yourself. The best way to do this, as others have mentioned, is to choose a few hashtags of interest and follow them. This will show posts from accounts talking about those things, at which point you should start following accounts liberally (you can always unfollow later). Those accounts, in turn, will “boost” posts from people they follow, which is how you get exposed to the conversations happening there.
It’s this process for populating your feed with content that’s interesting to you that many people find intimidating. The down side is that you don’t automatically get fed content like on Twitter; the up side is that you have a lot more control over what content you see.