In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....
Hashtags are the only way. You can follow mass hashtags though, which is nice. So if you want to know everything about a certain topic you would put in #favoritetopic and then push the follow sign for that topic. I have #seattle and #trails for example. Not every app lets you do this though but I know FOSS Tusky does and last I checked the official Mastodon does not.
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)
In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....