How do you find content on fedi? Do you use any algorithm tools you recommend?
Rn, I check https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows (a mastodon acct that recommends interesting accounts to follow), and https://followgraph.vercel.app/ , an algorithm that shows you people your following follow on Mastodon.
Aside from that I stumbled upon things which is always fun but I wish there is an easier way to find interesting things without always manually searching and digging through results.
To be brutally honest, I have only the slightest inkling as to what it actually is - I was just looking for a Reddit alternative. I signed up, entered my credits into the Boost android app and here I am. It’s liked the Reddit experience I miss from years ago, except with less content but nicer people.
I mostly don’t use Fediverse services outside the Threadiverse (lemmy/mbin/piefed).
For the Threadiverse:
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http://lemmyverse.net/communities is an important resource. They spider all the Threadiverse instances and build a searchable community list.
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!communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world have people post to promote their communities.
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Looking to see where other users who put up interesting content also hang out.
Sometimes, people will have interesting recommendations that they stick in posts.
http://lemmyverse.net/communities is an important resource. They spider all the Threadiverse instances and build a searchable community list.
Small note: the main community page does not show Piefed communities
https://piefed.social/communities has “Active people” (per week) column and allows to search for communities in a similar way to Lemmyverse
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How do you find content on fedi?
Purely by chance. What I like most about the “Fediverse”, as little as I care for the word, is that I keep stumbling across new accounts, communities, and posts that I never expected. That’s why I don’t think much of “recommendation lists”. They’re always subjective and prone to forming filter bubbles.
I just want to see more nerds and less ideological fetishism.
I occasionally go on community subscribing blitz on Lemmy and i have firefox addon that redirects youtube vids to peertube mirrors and sub there if i can.
I browsed the global feed for a few minutes every day and, if I saw something I like, I followed.
After a few weeks, I had a feed.
Now, most of my discovery is when someone I follow reposts.
If I ever get bored of my feed, I can always trawl global again.
