Don’t get me wrong, and the question is completely genuine.
One of the things I miss - albeit a little - about Twitter was the learning I was able to do on certain topics, for free.
Obviously I had to really, really filter what I wanted to see on Twitter, to be able to read interesting things and learn some things regarding different topics - like football, music, etc…
While Lemmy, in my opinion, is an excellent and better alternative to reddit and WriteFreely seems like a viable and best alternative to blogger/medium, I would like to know if in your opinion, places like Mastodon or Pleroma are, in fact, an alternative to twitter. I would like to know your opinion.
I confess that in this aspect I miss Twitter a bit, because I could see content from people trained and studies in topics I wanted to read, but I don’t know what the content is like, in general, on Mastodon, Pleroma, etc…
Taking into account is Twitter is a mass social network, will it be difficult to find this type of thing on Mastodon, Pleroma, etc?
If anything, it’s easier to learn on mastodon. Because you don’t have to filter as much. You just # your subject, and see what’s going on with it. Now, you do lack the numbers twitter had, but it isn’t like it’s useful for that now anyway. It can take longer to build up a good feed for sure, but you run into more people that genuinely know what they’re talking about.
Mastodon etc are to twitter what lemmy is to reddit. Smaller, and so harder to find niche content, but still a worthwhile replacement
Just follow some hashtags you like on Mastodon. It’ll lead you to more good content.
