I keep losing interest in Mastodon for not following enough accounts; a chicken/egg problem.

[bob@feed.hella.cheap]

@travisgoodspeed
whitequark@treehouse.systems
neauoire@merveilles.town
tubetime@mastodon.social
loriemerson@post.lurk.org
bleeptrack@vis.social
ChuckMcManis@chaos.social

[mossmann@mastodon.social]

@travisgoodspeed some follow recommendations: @cmb @slyka @destevez @jaseg @ancientjames

[mossmann@mastodon.social]

@travisgoodspeed more follow recommendations: @jonty @NanoRaptor @tnt @miek @violetblue

[bitsavers@oldbytes.space]

@travisgoodspeed

how to balance dopamine hits that aren't just rage bait...

has anyone built a large language model tunable to individual taste that doesn't require doomscrolling classifications to tune it to your likes?

I only follow a few dozen people who make interesting boosts

sadly... tubetime seems to have moved mostly to bsky

[gilester45@twit.social]

@travisgoodspeed I only realised fairly recently that you can follow hashtags - and I've discovered lots more interesting people to follow since.

[travisgoodspeed@mastodon.social]

@bitsavers The Bitsavers library was an absolute godsend when I needed old microcontroller manuals a couple years back. Thank you!

[curious_carrot@mastodon.social]

@travisgoodspeed
This account shares some very random things sometimes, but most of the times it's really cool stuff:

@Rainmaker1973

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@travisgoodspeed Howdy!

[timsk@mastodon.social]

@travisgoodspeed as a couple of others have mentioned, follow some interesting hashtags, and that way you'll find people that toot your kind of thing

[m3t00@catodon.rocks]

@travisgoodspeed@mastodon.social

try the profiles directory on any mastodon.

https://mastodon.social/directory

[lydiaschoch@mastodon.social]

@travisgoodspeed I had this same problem when I first joined. One thing that helped was looking at who the people I was following were boosting. Some of those accounts matched my interests well, and so I’d follow them and then do the same thing as they boosted other accounts.

Others used hashtags I wasn’t aware of at the time that I ended up liking a lot, too.

It’s not always a fast process, but it can be pretty effective.

I hope you find more kindred spirits here soon.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@travisgoodspeed no profile to tell us what you're into, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[mandarvaze@indieweb.social]

@travisgoodspeed
1. follow topics (hashtags) rather than people. Eventually you'll figure out whom to follow

2. If you are coming from twitter, a lot of people you followed there may have mastodon account as well. Start by following them.

3. Check @FediTips

[bowreality@thecanadian.social]

@deborahh @travisgoodspeed Exactly. Hard to recommend anything

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@travisgoodspeed Unfortunately, you don't show your interests in your profile, you have no pinned post about you,: how should people discover you? My tips: subscribe to your favourite hashtags and look at the interesting people coming into your TL. Find interesting people with @FediFollows and more tips how to use Mastodon with the great guide by @FediTips

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@travisgoodspeed

Hi Travis, perhaps this list might be useful, it shows all the different ways of discovering interesting accounts to follow: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

There's also another list which has all the ways to make your account more discoverable to others: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-followers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/