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PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to throw in a second good word for hashtags. I follow a tiny handful of people, almost entirely personal friends. But I follow a lot of hashtags. Because it typically is the content that I’m after as opposed to a particular person. If my favorite poster of weather information decides to post something about accounting, I don’t really want to see that. Also following a hashtag gets you a lot more exposure to like-minded people than you would if you were trying to follow them all individually, and you see a lot more posts about things you enjoy.

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  • PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Would you say there’s a good amount of hashtags and what not for the creative type? I’m trying to find ways to network with people in my industry a little better. Cheers mate

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    • froggycar360@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes!! I follow a ton of art and craft hashtags. My mastodon is popping, you just have to do some work.

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    • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m following 42 hashtags, a bunch of science, teaching, and programming stuff, mostly (I’m a CS instructor). But also things like #trains. :) And the state and city I live in.

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wish mastodon made tags as easy as Tumblr did. I hate that they clutter up the post and that there’s no autocomplete.

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• Xed@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use mastodon to read about what scientists and environmentalists are writing. So not really for social, more like science based post viewing

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  • PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are your top recommendations, my friend? I’m big on that, I like the social aspects if sites in a sense, but I prefer having a grouped area for my news.

    While politics are important to stay up to date on, I’m trying to fix mt feeds to have as minimal political news as possible, unless I click on it.

    I’ve been using inoreader, but haven’t quite figured it out either. I’d like to follow scientists and environmentalists like you mentioned, but also artists, designers, small businesses, etc.

    I’m trying to stay up to date in my relevant fields, but also find people to donate my time to. I’ve heard mastodon is great for networking, but to be honest, everyone on lemmy has been bad ass. This is becoming my new hub, does lemmy connect into mastodon fediverse thingy? Lol!

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sauropods.win/@futurebird

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• mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use Mastodon to follow people and Lemmy to follow topics.

  I actually created a Proof of concept where each hashtag would be a subreddit like interface a couple of weeks ago. Its VERY rough but links2 compatible :D. The idea is the first hashtag will be the “lemmy community” like interface. Its just mastodon.py with a very small fast api front end. Popped ti up in an hour or so. I need to work on the UI badly but I keep not having the spoons.

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  • PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Any way I can help you with your goals? No charge of course. I’d like to see more free options available for people, my time is worth the sacrifice to help give power back to the people.

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    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I threw it up on Codeberg. Ill add in instructions later mastodon-to-hash-as-mblog. Feel free to fork and add what you want. Ill add in a README in a bit.

      One thing to note, you HAVE to create an API token from the mastodon server of your choice in order to make this work. Theres probably a way around this, but I havent found it yet.

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• john_fisherman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s definitely work in progress. But it has also grown a lot, and you will have no issues finding good content there. Hashtags and “people that the people you follow follow” are a good start. Also, at the end of my post you’ll find some seed suggestions. :)

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  • PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right on! Thanks for the genuinely helpful response, I’ve been trying to expand my presence on that app as well. Cheers mate!

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    • john_fisherman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any time! What’s your handle, I can follow you. :)

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      • PeterisBacon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s StepBacon, I believe haha, I’ll give you a followback!

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I follow a couple people like Hempuli (Baba Is You dev), Internetarchive, and David Revoy (Pepper & Carrot comic creator). Really depends on what you wanna follow. I follow them because I’m interested in their work in one way or another.

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