@ragnell@witches.live
So far the nicest thing I've seen is something I liked from early twitter that ultimately became useless as they switched to algorithms -- the public feed.
Twitter, in the beginning, had a global feed and it was something you could read and look at and find new people on.
My Mastodon feed (or Cauldron as my server calls it) is not as active as my Twitter had been, so I find myself over on the local (Sabbath) feed when I have a few moments. And I have the federated (Crystal Ball) as an option.
And I'm clearly getting followers from the public feeds, too. It's great.
On Twitter we would find new people through retweets and the public feed, but as everything became algorithmic we ended up mainly passing along people to dunk on and seeing the people who caused the most outrage.
But natural chronological public feeds are better. I find myself just passing over stuff I disagree with, and focusing more on what I like.
It's weird too, because a lot of the worst engangement-driven changes on Twitter--showing you others likes or trending posts--were explained as a way of "getting us out of our bubble" but Mastodon's focus on the public feeds, putting them on our sidebar, is much better encouragement to leave our bubble.
I agree Twitter is about being popular. You can post your breakfast as long as you have numbers lol 
