now that I’m playing around with mastodon for the first time really I’m pretty confused how you’re supposed to find people.
@hxrts This is one good way: https://streetpass.social/
At least in my experience, the fediverse seems to revolve around various different tight knit online communities. It's a lot slower & more tedious to build connections because the social graph is less dense. It's not like Facebook where the first time you log in, it shows you a massive page with everyone in your highschool or college class. I guess its a blessing and a curse. On one hand, my attention is directed by me, not by the platform. On the other hand, if I don't do anything, I'm just faced with a blank page; nothing to see.
Anyways,
On the bottom left you should see a set of links:
> "post.lurk.org: About · Profiles directory · Privacy policy"
Profiles directory will take you to
https://post.lurk.org/directory, which has an option to filter for just accounts on your instance, or accounts on other instances.
I guess the answer to the question "how to find people" might depend on how you got here, what your goals are, etc.
@forestjohnson makes sense. I think the thing that feels a little odd is I know there are a bunch of people who are one degree away from me in various communities and they’re probably on here, they just happened to choose a different server as their home base.
I got an invite to lurk 5 years ago because a bunch of post-internet people joined, but that’s just one of many communities I identify with.
It’s interesting nonetheless. I guess right now I’m here on a little cultural anthropology expedition to compare different decentralized social media spaces. I have a feeling that the overarching landscape of social media is changing and I’m wondering if decentralized platforms are ready to play a major role.
