this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
149 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

67050 readers
6206 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
149
How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net (fredrocha.net)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That takes a long time. I tried the same on Mastodon and ended up losing interest. I went to bluesky and just followed some starter packs and was up and running in less than an hour with 1000+ follows and a nice feed. Within a few weeks I had more than 700 followers myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe you can try following the Starter Packs of subjects that you like?

https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks I didn't know these existed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

See, I don't understand why anyone would need to immediately follow that many randoms. And I don't get the need to speedrun social media.

But hey, it takes all sorts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It's investment vs payoff. I want to get a feed up and running, then I can tailor it as needed. My feed from using starter packs at Bluesky ended up better than 10+ years at Twitter trying to follow people individually, mostly because I was able to oursource the work of finding people with an interest in certain things to people who have put in the time to do this manually which I don't have the desire to do.

It may just be that the Twitter format isn't a good fit for me, but it worked at Bluesky in a way it didn't work anywhere else using that style of communication.