@sophia If, say, you're looking for some PeerTube videos on a subject you like. I find it easiest to search for that outside of Mastodon first. Once found, I search for that username here and follow it. The will look like any you'd find here @[name] followed by @[instance].

Sometimes their posts/videos won't show up at first. Maybe the servers need time to talk to each other.

@FediTips can probably provide more assistance.

Do you have a specific interest in mind to start with?

To our new #forkiverse pals.

A thing it took me a while to understand when I first joined Mastodon is what federation actually means for us users.

There are Fediverse equivalents to a bunch of things. @peertube is like youtube. @PixelFed is like instagram. @loops is like tiktok.

But you can use your Mastodon account to interact with these. It would be like if you could follow, like and comment on a youtube video direct from your facebook account. No additional sign up.

@GossiTheDog If you know people who might want to join Mastodon but struggle with the picking a server part this site has a curated list it can suggest from with a push of a button:
https://fedi.garden/

@louis

@FediTips is very helpful.