Do you choose to interact with the fediverse in a particular way?

For example, I only make posts on kbin.social and mostly comment only on kbin.social. I mostly keep federation turned off, but do turn it on occasionally to see if there is anything interesting going on. So for me, it is:

  1. Posts and Comments to Kbin first
  2. Rest rest of the fediverse second (and just occasionally)

I love the fact that I choose which communities to subscribe or block and that I can choose when to federate/defederate from the larger fediverse.

  • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have a mastodon account, too, but rarely use it. I felt like the conversations were just not there … but I was/am probably using it wrong.

    • LennethAegis@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Are you looking for conversations in your local server, cause those are generally not what I use Mastodon for, though they were a good start to find people that I should follow and curate my list of media for my own.

      I’m a queer person in tech, so I joined tech.lgbt, which led to the people there regularly boosting content related to those topics that led me to find the people I wanted to follow. It rook a while to slowly build a sizable list of people, but I’m now sitting comfortably at just under 100 which plenty of content to wade through daily.

      • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        @LennethAegis In the beginning, I followed mostly news outlets … AP, Reuters, etc. Then, someone mentioned you could follow tags. So, I tried that and it helped with content, but it just wasn’t there for me. I may need to go back and put a little more effort into who/what I follow. Or maybe a different try a different instance.