I found with Mastodon I had to force myself to really give it a couple of goes to get how it worked. Initially it seemed like a ghost town, it’s definitely way harder to find interesting content at first especially if you’ve picked a general server. None of that, or really how the whole things works, is really explained to the user, but I’ve found the experience is getting a bit better.

It started clicking with me when I searched a few very specific hashtags and started following them and the people posting in them. Definitely a lot more work to find stuff on there though. If it’s got any chance of taking off, the onboarding process needs to be a lot easier, especially for users coming from Twitter, Instagram and others. The first impression leaves a lot to be desired.