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how do I follow specific users?
Mbin and piefed would be better for that.
Use Mastodon. Lemmy is built around topics, not people.
I feel as though I'm still missing something about Mastadon that others have absorbed and moved past. There was remarkably little content there, aside from the spam shotgunned into my feed by the few brand/city official accounts that I subbed to... What's the appeal? I set it to display the rando posts, but it appeared to be literally that, random shitposting the way that people scream into the void of Twitter or Bluesky...
Yes exactly! It's just like Twitter or Blusky. It's 99.3% people just shouting into the void, without form or structure. You're not confused.
Hashtags are pretty good.
They really aren't.
They're a user created workaround, attempting to fix the structure-less, findability problem. Twitter embraced and officially incorporated them, because they had no better solution that wasn't completely rebuilding the entire system. They rightly new everybody would hate that.
The point of twitter is (more like was at this point) to follow people.
They're different formats completely, and one isn't inherently better than the other.
Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That's not what it's for, and just shouldn't be an option, so people know that.
following hashtags kinda tricks people into thinking that it's going to be good, but hashtags don't trigger federation so it's a bit of a disappointment unless you're on a big instance
I never enjoyed Mastodon or Twitter either
but if you want to follow a person instead of a topic/community then you use Mastodon/Mbin/etc
That's part of the problem, I can't even begin to figure out who or what to follow. I'm not kidding about the part where I browsed the random feed; there was random K-pop stuff, ultra-local politics with no context, posts about random low-key mobile games, stream of thought... I'm literally at a complete loss about where to narrow my focus with that platform, it might as well be a hacked feed of every single cell phone DM/individual group chat messages (minus the smut). I can't even figure out why I should give a fuck about it existing TBH, what am I supposed to do with this thing?
Try hashtags.
I think that just means the platform is not for you (or for me). If it was a good fit for you then you would have people that you want to follow.
try Mbin https://joinmbin.org/
You'd want mastadon for that. Lemmy is for following communities. Someone could make their own community if they wanted something for just them.
PieFed has that