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DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoI dunno. I joined Mastodon back in 2022 and just…followed people.
They weren’t the same people as on Twitter, but it didn’t really matter in the end. I now follow almost 600 people and never feel like my feed is empty.
One social media site doesn’t have to be better than another, it just has to be sufficient for your needs.
realitista@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
That takes a long time. 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.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
realitista@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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 doing this 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.