Mastodon

When I select to log in to my account, I get sent to a page with which I log in. After that, it doesn't switch back to the app, but it saltays within that website page and goes into the -change the password- section. Does this happen because I have not yet been accepted on the server (as stated in the yellow box)?

Noone is on there noone talks to me noone shars my intrests everyone is just lgbtq tech workers

I had been spending quite some time on mastodon, but lately realized that it just isn’t for me.

Mastodon is very focused on individuals, not as much on content. I’m not saying there isn’t a need for mastodon, and I’m happy it’s there, but my main use case is contacting (semi) public figures or software-support there, which happens rarely. Curating a feed that is both interesting to me and "high quality" without being overrun doesn’t seem feasible.

Lemmy is much more focused on content. You don’t follow people, you follow topics or interests and get the things surfaced that the most people in that interest group appreciate. The discussions work much better (Twitter-like reply’s are just one huge bag of trash). It also doesn’t matter who the people are behind the content, as long as it’s interesting it will find an audience.

Just something that I’ve been thinking about. Any thoughts on this?

The most common answer I see is something along the lines of "it's the equivalent of liking a post on twitter". It seems that this is not the case, as the Mastodon devs seem rather adamant that they don't want "likes" in Mastodon. Perhaps it's a method of saving posts? Well, that doesn't make sense either, since there is already the ability to "Bookmark" a post to save it.

It really just seems like a "Favorite" is just a bookmark that tells the poster, and the public that you bookmarked the post. And even if this was the reasoning -- which is baffling enough as it is -- it wouldn't make sense since the whole point of boosting something is to tell the public that you like a post.

It really seems like the "Favorite" button has no actual unique purpose. In my honest opinion, Mastodon should just federate "Likes" like normal, and be done with it.

If you are looking for the ElonJet account here it is, you can also follow it from your instance by searching

@elonjet@mastodon.social

its filled with useless stuff like someone saying "good morning", do you just scroll past toots like that or is there a way to make it better ?
like Twitter has an option to sort the home feed by recommended tweets, is there anything like that for mastodon ?

Posts aren't showing up and join requests aren't being approved when i try to follow communities