Hello, I am a person who has only used thread based “social media” their whole life. I never liked platforms such as twitter and instagram and preferred aggregators like reddit, and nowadays, lemmy.
I tried joining twitter once, failed, closed my account and went back to reddit. Same with instagram. Kind of glad that I did not use them.
I recently created an instagram account because my friends use it’s messaging feature. And because my generation uses instagram handles like phone numbers of old (i am 20).
I really want an active mastodon account. There are really cool people there and there are some thoughts I can’t express with the “forum format”.
I mostly repost cool stuff I see, but even after joining a reasonable amount of discourse, and trying not to look like a bot, I am yet to get a workable amount of social circle. Whereas I easily fit into places like lemmy.
what am i doing wrong
edit: Just realized the title looks like a “I wanna be famous” post. It really is not
My profile: https://toot.community/@yogurtwrong
I use Antennas on Sharkey / IceShrimp to be able to find content I’m interested in.
But I usually prefer the Threadiverse format.
Antennas are underrated, they works pretty well for capturing many small signals about one area of interest. Mastodon columns with multiple hashtags pinning comes second this.
Antennas are really a feature Mastodon is missing.
When I use Mastodon, I switch to Phanpy.social to have a slight better UI, but otherwise Sharkey/IceShrimp are really much better.
Don’t forget to mention Misskey as well, as they that feature originally forked from them :)