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  • juergen@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    maybe have a extra mastodon account where you just follow positive things and radically filter out negative stuff (even with word based filters)

    and then i can just recommend:

    • be patient. The awesome people will be found over time.
    • lemmy communities are also great, but i dont remeber the names. But different instances have some funny meme communities.
    • search hashtags
    • in general explore stuff.