Do you choose to interact with the fediverse in a particular way?

For example, I only make posts on kbin.social and mostly comment only on kbin.social. I mostly keep federation turned off, but do turn it on occasionally to see if there is anything interesting going on. So for me, it is:

  1. Posts and Comments to Kbin first
  2. Rest rest of the fediverse second (and just occasionally)

I love the fact that I choose which communities to subscribe or block and that I can choose when to federate/defederate from the larger fediverse.

  • LennethAegis@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have a mastodon account as well as a kbin account and I regularly use both. From Kbin I follow not just kbin magazines, but several lemmy communities, mostly from lemmy.world and beehaw,org.

    With mastodon, I follow people rather than instances, so it matters much less where everyone is and I don’t particularly keep track of it.

    • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have a mastodon account, too, but rarely use it. I felt like the conversations were just not there … but I was/am probably using it wrong.

      • LennethAegis@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Are you looking for conversations in your local server, cause those are generally not what I use Mastodon for, though they were a good start to find people that I should follow and curate my list of media for my own.

        I’m a queer person in tech, so I joined tech.lgbt, which led to the people there regularly boosting content related to those topics that led me to find the people I wanted to follow. It rook a while to slowly build a sizable list of people, but I’m now sitting comfortably at just under 100 which plenty of content to wade through daily.

        • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          @LennethAegis In the beginning, I followed mostly news outlets … AP, Reuters, etc. Then, someone mentioned you could follow tags. So, I tried that and it helped with content, but it just wasn’t there for me. I may need to go back and put a little more effort into who/what I follow. Or maybe a different try a different instance.

    • jules@fedi196.gay
      1·
      1 year ago

      I do pretty much the same - I tried to use the a.gup.ee on masto for more of a group feel but it was much too overwhelming. Glad kbin and lemmy are being adopted more. I need my lil video game and craft communities haha.