I would love to love Mastodon, but discoverability was so incredibly difficult that I just gave up. I can find people and topics so much more easily on Bluesky. The starter packs are nice too.

Does Mastodon have starter packs (lists of people to follow posting on a particular subject area, which ideally you could just click once and follow everyone)?

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pkd 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is an open proposal to implement it without some of Bluesky's downsides.

https://github.com/mastodon/featured_collections

	▲	Zambyte 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The main downside being the ability to opt out of starter packs (they can be a source of low quality interactions).

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balder1991 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have this impression too, I open Mastodon and the timeline usually doesn’t have many interesting things.

	▲	seba_dos1 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This used to be the case for me too, but hasn't now for years. I've followed plenty of people that migrated during the big exoduses from Twitter and then for a while started liberally following people whose reposts I liked and now the timeline is oozing with life ever since.