I have already swapped like 95% of all of my american applications to European alternstives (all besides YouTube). However, I have a question…: What the heck is happening on Mastodon?

a) there are a few people there (even in comparison to Lemmy it is just microscopic

b) seems like Mastodon has never seen Any moderation: even though I followed politics-related people/organisations, Mastodon was, almost, bombarding me with unmarked and VERY unwanted NSFW content. Why?

So the question is: how to deal with Mastodon? Is it only me? It would be very nice to get back there and make theiving conversations and threads like here on Lemmy.

Vive l’Europe, Vesi

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

For discovering things in the whole Mastodon/fediverse network: yes absolutely

However if you are browsing the "local" or "all" feed on such a huge instance you should not be surprised to see a lot of nsfw or japanese-language or otherwise "uninteresting" content

Mastodon requires a lot of manual content curation by you to create your feed of people you are interested in following

But there are resources - starter packs, lists of people sorted by topic/profession/etc that you can follow. And best start by following hashtags related to your interests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

For example:

Starter pack directory
"How do I find accounts to follow?" - good overview article. Fedi.Tips has a Mastodon account that is very helpful