Gregory's Server@Curator I don’t mean to be rude or anything. But it really is frustrating here. Having to make a discussion with someone is so hard. It is so frustrating. It’s like no one wants to discuss current events, barely anyone dosen’t want to discuss music/Tv none of that crap. Is there a hashtag for that? Really demotivating
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Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator
@austinsart - you can either check the federated timeline for what people are talking about, or try having a secondary account on one of the general-purpose huge instances like mastodon.social. We are, after all, primarily a creative instance and people mostly post either about their creative pursuits, or their personal lives.
Austin’s Art :fediverse:
@Curator yeah maybe I should reply to such things and see if they respond. And maybe I should make a secondary social account for that. I’ll try those
Austin’s Art :fediverse:
@Curator totally understand that! Just thought the Russian thing would bring some people to chat about it, but I guess people have different interests
Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator
@austinsart I've seen loads of folk talking about the Russian news today from my personal account! I'm following just over a thousand people from there though. You're only following 30-ish so you're not going to see much at all in your home feed, the local feed is mostly dominated by art and people often post news and current events stuff unlisted so they won't show up in the public feeds. I think you'll get far more mileage from one of the huge general-topic instances for that stuff though :D
Ian Jago
@Curator @austinsart I find the easiest way to keep up with things that interest me is to search and follow hashtags, then use that to follow interesting individuals. On a personal level, I try and avoid those topics here, not because I don't care, but because I need to keep my spirits up / take care of my mental health. It seems easy enough to (generally) avoid or follow these things - which instance you are on doesn't matter much unless you want to find certain topics on the local timeline.
Austin’s Art :fediverse:
@ianjago @Curator totally understandable but good tips overall. I rarely discuss news/politics crap here because of how polarizing it is. But the Russia news was funny to watch 😂😂 and I wanted to discuss that but yeah I’m gonna try the hashtags and see how that goes, I’ll probably still make a personal secondary account because it’s probably good to distinguish art away from myself when I’m not doing art.
ArtByCutting
@austinsart @Curator @ianjago Totally agree with this. The reason why I left birdie site was due to getting sucked into lots of things that didn’t do my mh any good. So I’m one of the ones that sticks my fingers in my ears when news is on etc and like masto.art is mainly about art.
Austin’s Art :fediverse:
@artbycutting @Curator @ianjago yeah, I didn’t mind much of the news, the misinformation that’s being allowed there has caused me to block some accounts there. That’s one thing that I am glad about that mastodon dosen’t allow that here |
@austinsart A lot of people don't want to engage with negative things here like current news, but there are still people talking about it - I've seen loads of people mentioning the Russian news today. You're using the right tags for that too. Did you look through those tags yourself to find people talking about them to join in conversations? There are plenty of folk that talk about music and TV shows here too. But if you want *more* general news and media discussion in your feed -