/u/Vivaldi786561 Mastodon.Social Older crowd. More International crowd. To get the engagement you want you need to hashtag your posts with the relevant subject keywords follow hashtags on subjects you find interesting. The “Explore” link often provides an interesting mix of posts that have been favorited and boosted the most. If you don’t like the microblogging format and would prefer to see the content in a discussion forum format like Reddit you can use Lemmy.World. If you can over-the-top strict moderation tildes.net tends to have longer, more thought out posts.