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I’ve never been able to find the meme posts on mastodon, therein lies part of its core issues, federation makes discoverability iffy at best. It hasn’t yet reached mass yet.
I've been following hashtags on Mastodon, and that has worked pretty well for me. Still, it's not the forum layout that I enjoy, but it's still useful.
Well, that is when looking at the federated timeline, which is basically breaking open the dam and hoping to catch something cool before I drown.
Oh god yeah, I’ve never ventured outside the mas.to local timeline (and a few hashtags and people in the replies). I assume there are vastly more funny local timelines with a few of the more shitposty or lgbt focused ones. Eh oh well.
Unless it is a feature that I never saw, I wish I could subscribe to other timelines/instances. There are a few communities that were exclusive and always interesting.
I suppose the best thing is to be promiscuous with who you follow so you have a healthy timeline.
You can on a lot of the apps, I know the app I use on iOS ‘Ice Cubes’ supports me following another instance, this isn’t the case for the official app/website however.
Haha. Just like third-party Reddit apps, the best experience is never through the website or official application.
if you're on a major instance the federated timeline should have close to everything not specifically blocked. it's a flood of stuff tho