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

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use Antennas on Sharkey / IceShrimp to be able to find content I'm interested in.

But I usually prefer the Threadiverse format.

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Don't forget to mention Misskey as well, as they that feature originally forked from them :)