How do you find content on fedi? Do you use any algorithm tools you recommend?
Rn, I check https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows (a mastodon acct that recommends interesting accounts to follow), and https://followgraph.vercel.app/ , an algorithm that shows you people your following follow on Mastodon.
Aside from that I stumbled upon things which is always fun but I wish there is an easier way to find interesting things without always manually searching and digging through results.
I mostly don’t use Fediverse services outside the Threadiverse (lemmy/mbin/piefed).
For the Threadiverse:
http://lemmyverse.net/communities is an important resource. They spider all the Threadiverse instances and build a searchable community list.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world have people post to promote their communities.
Looking to see where other users who put up interesting content also hang out.
Sometimes, people will have interesting recommendations that they stick in posts.
Small note: the main community page does not show Piefed communities
https://piefed.social/communities has “Active people” (per week) column and allows to search for communities in a similar way to Lemmyverse
@twoafros@sh.itjust.works
Thanks for sharing the links!
No problem. And just to make it clear, if you haven’t done so before, if you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, you’ll want to copy the text with the leading exclamation mark, which you can do by clicking on that text on lemmyverse.net — say, for example, !foodporn@lemmy.world — and then paste it into the community search on whatever client or Web UI you use. That’ll make your home instance connect to the instance where the community lives and learn about it, if it hasn’t already. Your home instance is sh.itjust.works, which is decently-sized, so it’s not as much an issue for you — for many communities, some user on sh.itjust.works will have already done this and subscribed to the community — but for users on smaller instances, it’s more important.