Mastodon is regarded as social network for *nerds *just like the rest of services based on ActivityPub. Where are those nerds? I want to find my community.
Most popular posts on mastodon.social’s Explore wall currently have from 3 to 8 replies and with two exceptions: one political post which has 11 and some long discussion in blender artist community which has 41 replies right now. Everything else is just hiking, cats and motivational quotes for gen-x and milennials.
I was lucky to get in in the early days when posting Mastodon handles on Twitter was common so was able to easily migrate. But this is a problem with ActivityPub right now I feel like. Discovery algorithms can be awful in the timeline, but so useful for finding people/communities to follow.