I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts.
Am I missing something, or is the purpose just to shout your opinions into the void? Could any Twitter/Mastodon users explain it to me like I’m 4?
The twitter format is a pub/sub format, it’s not really about group discussions. It’s for if you are a creator or business and want people who care about your output to be able to follow your announcements. E.g streamers who want to announce when they’re about to go live, artists who want to post their content (though personally I wish they’d do that on art gallery sites), game devs who want to give news to fans, etc etc.