I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts.
Am I missing something, or is the purpose just to shout your opinions into the void? Could any Twitter/Mastodon users explain it to me like I’m 4?
Twitter-style seems to make sense if you’re a public figure or an organization. As a private individual it doesn’t make as much sense unless all you want to do is follow the people/orgs you’re interested in. I tend to use the Lemmy/Reddit model way more.