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    1 year ago

    Thats likely due to lack of algorithms with goal to keep you browsing forever. Twitter likely harvests all the data it can get from you when you browse twitter. They can also track your browsing habits using your IP and sites that have embed twitter content like share button or embed tweets.

    Finding people to follow in Mastodon mostly happens by:

    • Search topics using hashtags
    • Randomly browsing local feeds of different instances
    • Randomly browsing the federated feed
    • Randomly browsing local feed

    There are instances for different interests like game development, art, information security, foss etc so there’s a lot of places to dig for good content.