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I'm new to Mastodon but been on Lemmy for more than a month now (that's how I discovered Mastodon, though I might have heard of it before and didn't care because I don't care about Twitter either). Anyway, not sure who to follow here, I have no idea who everyone else is here but that shouldn't matter.
@fransmind Hi there, good luck! If you're a bit lost, I suggest navigating to people's profiles if you like their style, looking at who they follow, and just go bonkers following anyone who looks cool. You can always unfollow later if they turn out to be less cool than anticipated.
One tip: you can turn off someone else's boosts, if you just want to see their posts.
There's also the @feditips account, it's worth reading. Go through to their original server profile, though.
Thank you for the mention :)
You can find lots of tips for getting started on Mastodon and the Fediverse at https://fedi.tips
Feel free to ask if you want help with something specific.
@feditips Good call on the website, I'll redirect people there in future. Much simpler than having them try to figure out how to browse your profile on another server.
Mastodon really needs to get some way of pre-loading, like, the top 20 favourited/boosted posts on a feed when you click on it, or at least the 20 most recent, then loading 20 more if you scroll down, etc.
I believe there's a ticket about it that's like 5 years old. :P
If at least one person on your server has followed an account, all its posts from that moment on will be visible on your server.
If no one on your server has followed someone, the account should at least show pinned posts on that profile, as pinned posts are "backfilled" even if no one has followed that account before.
There's still no backfilling for non-pinned posts, but the roadmap does mention a button that would let people optionally load up recent posts for blank profiles.
@feditips True, the vast majority of people should be on a server where you're already being followed, and the people running tiny servers are probably not your target audience - the individual small-server admin can probably handle the induction.