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Because there's no algorithm so most content avoids clickbait and is spread organically.
Also, Mastodon (and the Fediverse) tends to skew older, smarter, and more technically inclined.
Edit: https://hashtags.fyi/ has a lot more variety, though.
@cupcakezealot @aleph
"Also, Mastodon (and the Fediverse) tends to skew older, smarter, and more technically inclined."
Get off my lawn *grumbles* *cocks shotgun*
So you're saying I act like an old grumpy man but at a young age?
@Tag365 Exactly
...and we see the result of that, an incredibly boring community. No wonder so many people leave. Without an algo, it's simply awful. That's why Lemmy is already 10x more interesting with basic rating algo systems.
Weird. I have exactly the opposite experience with Mastodon. Without the algorithm it's been great. I get the content I look for instead of the content some ragebait-mongering corporate entity thinks I need to see so that I stick around and click their ads.
I get more useful and/or interesting content on Mastodon than I ever got on Twitter before I ditched it.
Would like to see your feed because after months of tweaking and following hash tags, my feed is still boring.
Define "boring" here? If you mean "as full of shitposts and memes as Twitter and/or Reddit" then yes, you're going to be bored on Mastodon. Since, however, I found those very posts boring as all shit on Twitter/Reddit, my feed suits me. A few hundred posts a day on topics that interest me, with about ... say ... 50% of them being somewhat insightful and/or thought-provoking. (The equivalent on Twitter was "however many posts the algorithm could shovel into my heap per day with about 0.01% of them being even slightly interesting". For Reddit it was so low I never bothered with an account.)
I mean to each their own but I don't think it's boring.
But Lemmy and Mastodon are essentially the same thing in that they both make up the Fediverse.