I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts.
Am I missing something, or is the purpose just to shout your opinions into the void? Could any Twitter/Mastodon users explain it to me like I’m 4?
Correct, but that doesn’t explain hash tags. I’m equally as confused as OP. By the time you sub to a hashtag, it’s abandoned lol
I always figured that was to make it easy to search for relevant messages after the fact.