Evernote (functional note-taking app), ReVanced (Youtube ads are a blight on civilization), My Boy! (Fire Emblem GBA series are my comfort games which get me through my bus commute. I would buy them on actual hardware if Nintendo didn’t make it such an obtuse PITA with limited-time subscriptions to induce artificial scarcity.)
Like the other user said following tags is a great way to engage with things you choose. Along the way, you’ll find people that you find interesting and then you can follow them directly. It’s much less about seeking people and more letting them come to you.
One way is to just follow hashtags and see whoposts to them. Since hashtags are basically the de facto way to find relevant content on Mastodon, not just a marketing tool like on Twitter. And then once you see who posts interesting stuff, you can then add them to your follows.
Another way is to check out instances that talk about things you’re interested in. There are several websites that list them but here is a shorter list: fedi.gardenCheck out their feeds and see who posts things you’re interested in.
Furthermore, you can follow a.gup.pe accounts, called “groups”, which work similarly to hashtags. Each a.gup.pe account is basically a repeater that boosts (i.e. “retweets”) every post that pings it, so that anyone following it gets that post. For example, I follow @climate, and every time someone pings that (it’s like including a hashtag), it’ll boost that post and I’ll see it too.
When I retired my OnePlus 7T, I grabbed a Pixel (6) so I could run GrapheneOS. Takes some getting used to but the improved security and reduced reliance on all the Google apps has been mostly good.
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