The problem with Mastodon is that they don’t have very many major entities actively making posts. The main thing I track on twitter is OSINT and US politics, and that community basically doesn’t exist on Mastodon right now
I follow some major news sources on Mastodon (Reuters, NYT, WaPo, Guardian, and more). Im in NYC so I also follow transit alerts, one of the main reasons I had previously used Twitter.
It takes a while to get it going. I go to the full federation feed and follow different users that I discover there, and also sometimes people that they follow.. And I also follow some big news sources like Reuters. Eventually my followed feed has built up - it's almost too many posts.
Indeed. That's one of the gratifying things about the deaths of all the billionaire-owned sites. It's giving room to breathe for those of us who don't want their vision of a future of humanity on their knees before them servicing them.