Discussion
I keep looking for active discussions on Masto; maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places?
I'm so much more used to socmed sites where folks talk to each other. It feels so silent and isolated here. Why??? I know there are humans around; my feed is full of posts but none of them seem to have any comments. It's just a bunch of folks shouting into the void.
Is it just a difference in culture here? Or am I just missing all the action somehow?
@ApostateEnglishman @Verati404 @benroyce @ai6yr
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There are so so many really very excellent people here, but yes you do have to find them. But once you do you'll find this is the absolutely best place by a country mile (whatever that is). My suggestion would be to follow people who are prolific boosters aswell, then follow people they boost etc. I fully agree with the above and would add @maxleibman for the lols, @amiserabilist for being the beating heart of Fedi, @batkaren for being...... whatever they are (unadulterated joy), and a whole host of other people I adore.... @Nickiquote, @rooster, @alice, @mayintoronto, @afewbugs - all of whom (that's right, I said whom) will improve your life immeasurably and would form the most unlikely team in the event of an apocalypse scenario, but do you know what..... I reckon might actually not be a bad group to be with. Genuinely reckon we could cobble together a pretty decent chance at survival. Although I realise as I write this we'd be unable to propogate the species as virtually everyone is gay, so we'd have to adopt and raise a bunch of animals instead, launching.... Humanity 2.0: Racoons.
Edit - sorry should have mentioned that we are all quite chatty aswell - not just posting stuff for engagement. Very community focused and friendly. This list is absolutely not exhaustive - there really are so many people here who are lovely connections to make. 😊❤️
@ApostateEnglishman @Verati404 @benroyce @ai6yr @maxleibman @amiserabilist @batkaren @Nickiquote @rooster @alice @mayintoronto @afewbugs
Er..... I thought it would be funny and cute to post a picture under this of a racoon in human clothes (full disclosure - definitely search it up - it is adorable), but was slightly surprised by the top search hit.....
@TheBreadmonkey @ApostateEnglishman @Verati404 @benroyce @ai6yr @maxleibman @batkaren @Nickiquote @rooster @alice @mayintoronto @afewbugs
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Yep, that's me.
You're probably wondering how I ended up here?
@Verati404 @benroyce @ai6yr @TheBreadmonkey While we're at at it, everyone here follows @futurebird because she's lovely, and anyone who cares as much as she does about ants, is by default interesting.
Also follow @sundogplanets , because I recently recommended a paper to her and it turned out she co-wrote it. The only way I can atone for this ridiculous mistake is to get her more followers. TL;DR: too many satellites, very bad.
(But also she has goats. Goats, did you hear? Goats are amazing.)
@Verati404 so, as you know, mastodon is a software that a bunch of different people are all running on their own websites.
Because the websites are "federated" you can see my posts and I can see yours, we can talk over the network.
But, because you can only see the parts of the network that you're federated with, you're not going to see most of the conversations, because you can't see the people commenting on posts if your server doesn't fetch their posts already.
@Verati404 there's been some software upgrades trying to fix this, but they don't all work all the time because some people's federated websites aren't even running mastodon, because ovb, you don't have to, to talk into the network.
@Verati404 Beyond the structural issues causing you to not see comments that do exist, there is both a strong problem all over the network with the world's most clueless reply guys, and people who are too anxious about contributing to the reply guy problem to say anything to anyone.
Generally the solution is to post things using a couple of relevant hashtags and follow some hashtags so you can find more people and thus weave your server better into the network
@Verati404 I highly recommend you start by following some extremely active extroverts, (not all of whom are named Alice, I promise!)
@Binder (boosts people from all over fedi so new uses can find each other)
@alice@lgbtqia.space (generally friendly and cool, posts locksport videos)
@Alice@beige.party (the funniest user on beige party, the premier shit posting instance)
@ai6yr (posts about ham radio, the weather, repairing things, and generally news, usually has a well-run comment section)
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@Verati404 There's loads of lively talk here, you just have to be following enough folks who are active!
I'd recommend @benroyce whose hilariously spicy rants about the complacency of American voters often deserve to be printed off and flyposted everywhere.
@ai6yr for obscure real-time OSINT that often beats news orgs to the story.
@TheBreadmonkey whose almost Shakespearian soliloquies about random shit that's happening to him will have you in stitches.
And that's just blokes called Ben! 👀