[ignaloidas]

Did you come to Mastodon over the last couple weeks? Because a lot of the signal from the more interesting parts of fedi got lost over the twitter newcomers yelling how it is much better.

And like, from people I follow, most of the more interesting ones aren't even using Mastodon, but rather Pleroma, Miskkey, or some forks of those. It's a diverse network, not only in types of people, but also in types of software. I would suggest you explore it more after a month or so, after this twitter wave blows over and dies off once again, as there's certainly some very nice communities out there.

[cyber_kinetist]

No, I toured some servers around three years ago... and ultimately there wasn't really anyone who I was interested in. Unlike Twitter, which I have seen all kinds of interesting people and interesting discussions. (Maybe it's because Mastodon is a bit too much slanted in the tech space, and I really want to have some distance from it since I pretty much already fill all of my tech discussion quota here.)

[ignaloidas]

Ah, fair, a lot of discourse is centered around tech in many instances. There are some people that mostly talk about other things though, but there are indeed less of them, and they can be harder to find. You still can find them, but if you don't want to go through tech discourse to find them, it's understandable why you didn't.