• Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Does Mastodon even have a filter so I can view all tweets from every instance like Lemmy does for posts? Because, if it does, I haven’t found it.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, yeah, that is the whole point.

      You need to search for key words or alternative just press a hashtag you see on a post, hashtags is how all instances communicate since there isn’t a proper text only searcher across instances.

      Hashtags are extremely important if you want people from outside your own instance to find your posts and they are heavily used by everyone for that reason.

      Of course you can manually search for users, or go to other instances and follow people from those, that way yohr own timeline will be filled with people outside your own instance.

      Lastly you have the all feed where it pulls posts from every instance federated with yours. It is pretty much useless, a lot of what you will se there will be on other languages and you won’t really see interesting contwnt like you do on local or your own feed since it has no theme or anything, it is just random tweets.

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      1 year ago

      Your client should have All and Local feeds, All being for everything your instance is federated with

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        1 year ago

        I’ll have to give Mastodon another shot. Maybe that’s what I was messing up.

        That said, I was always a bigger reddit user than tweeter

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          1 year ago

          I’ve found the same thing. Twitter was great for very specific, topic-based communities with everything else filtered out. The only reason I used it heavily was because of a couple of small, insulated scenes.

          My Mastadon instance is just an insufferably banal stream of tweeters who are united in their fear of posting anything interesting enough to be offensive. It’s basically “nice twitter”, which still sucks balls anyway if you don’t have a scene to keep in touch with.

          Lemmy is very much “nice reddit” for now and I’m finding it far more enjoyable to use.

      • Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Where can I find that? I’m using the Mastodon app available on Google Play.