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?
I’m the same way. I tried Twitter several times, and I am occasionally on Mastodon, but the format just does not suit me. Different people have different styles of engagement and that one seems to work well for some. I was primarily a reddit user and now I use Lemmy and kbin in a similar way.