Mastodon is regarded as social network for *nerds *just like the rest of services based on ActivityPub. Where are those nerds? I want to find my community.
Most popular posts on mastodon.social’s Explore wall currently have from 3 to 8 replies and with two exceptions: one political post which has 11 and some long discussion in blender artist community which has 41 replies right now. Everything else is just hiking, cats and motivational quotes for gen-x and milennials.
Yes. I use it to post pictures of birds.
Discovery built into Mastodon and ActivityPub microblogging in general isn’t great (and some people claim that’s a good thing). One place to look for people to follow is https://fedi.directory/