I just downloaded the app to see what’s all the hype about, and once again, I’m asked to pick a group, in this case, a server.

I suppose it’s like Lemmy instances, so, is there a general one, or an equivalent of lemmy.world in terms of size, interaction, and so on?

My mistake if I’m understanding things wrong, thanks!

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    Among the biggest there are mastodon.social, mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to and mastodon.world. As usual I guess it would be preferable to join in a not so big instance as to reduce centralization. The local/federated timeline is the wild west anyway, its built on your follows.

    Granted I never used Twitter so I might be using Mastodon wrong.

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      The local/federated timeline is the wild west anyway, its built on your follows.

      The local and federated timelines should be a firehose of every post, irrespective of your follows. Your “home” timeline is your follows.

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        I meant “(mastodon) is built on your follows” not the local and federated timelines. Because at least I couldn’t deal with the local/federated feeds and has to search for people to follow instead

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          Ah 👍 yeah depending on the client the federated timeline is just a blur as it refreshes. Following hashtags is great feature that enables discovery without an algorithm.