I don't think Mastodon is meant to be a replacement for Twitter, or will ever be that. It would be a mistake to treat it that way.
It's more like this place than Twitter, in a way.
Or, it's kind of similar to how Usenet was in the early 90s.
It's a simple linear feed of who've subscribed to, or what the people you've subscribed to have "boosted". So you find the interest groups you're into and join a node that matches that, then find the people you like on various nodes, and follow them. There's no recommendations really. There's hashtags, but few ways to "discover" them and they don't seem to get heavily used right now.
It's maybe like Twitter when it first launched. Certainly not what it became (which I never personally participated in).
It certainly doesn't have the level of "action" or "engagement" you'd find on Twitter. And that's probably a good thing.
It's more like this place than Twitter, in a way.
Or, it's kind of similar to how Usenet was in the early 90s.
It's a simple linear feed of who've subscribed to, or what the people you've subscribed to have "boosted". So you find the interest groups you're into and join a node that matches that, then find the people you like on various nodes, and follow them. There's no recommendations really. There's hashtags, but few ways to "discover" them and they don't seem to get heavily used right now.
It's maybe like Twitter when it first launched. Certainly not what it became (which I never personally participated in).
It certainly doesn't have the level of "action" or "engagement" you'd find on Twitter. And that's probably a good thing.