New people, welcome to Mastodon and the Fediverse!
Here's how to get started:
1. Find some people to follow over on @FediFollows, and through Trunk (https://communitywiki.org/trunk)
2. Find out your Mastodon/Fediverse address so you can share it with friends (https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107248252715651564)
3. Invite people to join you on here by telling them to go to https://joinmastodon.org and click on "Get Started". It doesn't matter if they join a different server because the servers talk to each other (here's a bit more of an explanation https://mstdn.social/@feditips/10702... show moreNew people, welcome to Mastodon and the Fediverse!
Here's how to get started:
1. Find some people to follow over on
@FediFollows, and through Trunk (
https://communitywiki.org/trunk)
2. Find out your Mastodon/Fediverse address so you can share it with friends (
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107248252715651564)
3. Invite people to join you on here by telling them to go to
https://joinmastodon.org and click on "Get Started". It doesn't matter if they join a different server because the servers talk to each other (here's a bit more of an explanation
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107021461185874594)
4. Find out what the Fediverse is (
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107044096139091624)
5. Find out why Mastodon being on so many different servers/instances is a really good thing (
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107083735491993183)
6. If you see anything nasty, you can report it to your friendly server admin (
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106540152842368591)
7. You can (sort of) verify your account if you own a website (
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106274105538953001)
If you have any questions, @ me or DM me!
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You can find someone's Mastodon or Fediverse address on their profile page. (See the attached photo for an example!)
If someone asks how they can follow you on Mastodon/Fediverse, then give them your Fediverse address.
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •9. There is no overall owner of Mastodon, it's a collection of thousands of independent servers each with their own owner and set of rules.
10. There are no venture capitalists or cryptocurrencies or tokens or coins or web3 or anything like that on Mastodon. Servers are entirely owned and paid for by their admins, and they rely on donations to keep going. Please be nice to them, they're doing you a favour by building this lovely corner of the internet.
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •9. There is no overall owner of Mastodon, it's a collection of thousands of independent servers each with their own owner and set of rules.
10. There are no venture capitalists or cryptocurrencies or tokens or coins or web3 or NFTs or anything like that on Mastodon. Servers are entirely owned and paid for by their admins, and they rely on donations to keep going. Please be nice to them, they're doing you a favour by building this lovely corner of the internet.
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •12. Don't worry too much about which server you choose, you can always move your account later (see here for details https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107939441820299376).
13. You can even set up your own Mastodon server if you like. You don't need any tech skills if you use a managed hosting service like https://masto.host or https://federation.spacebear.ee, who do all of the techy stuff for you.
14. You can find apps to use at https://joinmastodon.org/apps. You do not have to use the official apps, if you don't want to! There are lots of great unofficial apps which actually have more features than the official ones. You can see the unofficial apps on https://joinmastodon.org/apps by scrolling down to the "third party apps" section.
15. Servers listed on https://joinmastodon.org/communities have all signed up to a covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) which promises responsible moderation and reliable service.
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •17. Write an introductory post about yourself and give it the hashtag #Introductions, so that people can say hello to you
18. Make sure you use hashtags in public posts so they can be discovered more easily. Most searches on Mastodon depend on hashtags.
19. Posts on Mastodon are also known as "toots" (because that's the noise an elephant makes, and the Mastodon is an ancient ancestor of the elephant š ), while retweets here are "boosts".
20. Another good beginner's guide is @noelle's "Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon" at https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon
GitHub - joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon: An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •Content warning: Question About Mastodon
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in reply to Cheng • • •The "server" name for instances is not meant to be a physical description. It's used becuse non-technical people aren't familiar with the term "instance", but they might have heard of servers when using Minecraft or whatever.
skry
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in reply to skry • • •Preferences > Other > Filter Languages, select the languages you want to see and click "Save changes"
You should be able to access account settings on the apps too, I believe the official app has it in the "Boring Zone" of the settings page.
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Unknown parent • • •Owning your own server means you control the server, you set the rules and no one is spying on you.
On Facebook, Twitter etc, it's "free" but they cover their own costs by spying on you.
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Unknown parent • • •If you log in through your server's website, you'll see it in the "Bookmarks" link on the right (on the mobile website you need to press the three line menu icon to see Bookmarks).
The unofficial (aka "third party") apps also support bookmarks.
You can add a bookmark to a post by clicking on the "..." and then selecting "Bookmark" or clicking the bookmark icon š if there is one.
The official apps don't yet support bookmarks, but I assume that's because they only launched a few days/weeks ago. There are a lot of features missing from the official apps which are in the unofficial ones.
Jeremy ļ£æ:bat_boy:
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in reply to Jeremy ļ£æ:bat_boy: • • •Should also say the number of people joining Mastodon today is many times what it normally is, so timelines will be a bit wobbly anyway for the next few hours.
About your issue:
Every server on Mastodon is independent and has its own list of users. But the servers talk to each other and let their members interact across the entire network.
When you sign up on a server, you get an address that has two parts, your username and your server name.
The one you're posting from now is @ jeremydebose @ mstdn.social You can only use that account to sign in on mstdn.social, but once you're signed in you can interact with people from any server, including photog.social.
It's kind of like email: if you have a Gmail account you can communicate with Yahoo Mail addresses. You only need to sign up on one server in order to interact with other people on other servers.
Does this help? Feel free to say no š
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •If you buy one phone from one provider, you can call anyone anywhere, regardless of which provider they use, even if they're in another country.
The server you join is the equivalent of your phone company. The other servers are like other phone companies.
Because Mastodon servers talk to each other, you only need to sign up on one server, and that is enough to give you access to the whole network.
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in reply to Jeremy ļ£æ:bat_boy: • • •If both of the accounts are on mstdn.social, the admin should be able to sort it out as they would have tools for altering user details etc.
DMing them would be the best course of action.
Mstdn.social is run by @stux, try messaging them. It may take a bit longer get a reply right now though, as there's an unprecedentedly large tidalwave of new members joining š
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in reply to Jeremy ļ£æ:bat_boy: • • •Honestly, it does make sense once you get used to it
The whole internet used to work like this, as did communications before it, because it is quite useful to be decentralised.
I did a little thread about this some time ago:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107083735491993183
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in reply to sį“nź¶ÉŹoÅæ • • •An easier option is to use @yunohost to install it through the Yunohost operating system.
The easiest option though is to use managed hosting services for a fee.
Preparing your machine
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Unknown parent • • •https://joinmastodon.org/communities
There are thousands more servers out there, the above link is just a small selection of the most reliable ones.
("Servers", "instances" and "communities" are all the same thing.)
Choosing a community
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •I tried joining some other instances but it's saying my log in details for this acct are not valid.
Is this due to huge numbers making it buggy right now, or am I doing it wrong?
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in reply to Liz Ellis She/Herš³ • • •Trying to log in on other instances would be like trying to sign in to Yahoo Mail with your Gmail account.
You don't need to join other Masto instances to interact with them, in the same way you don't need to sign up on Yahoo Mail to send emails to yahoo addresses.
For example, I'm on mstdn.social and you're on mastodon.social but we are able to interact here, because Mastodon instances talk to each other.
I hope this is clear, let me know if it's not, I know this is a lot to take in if you're new here! š
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in reply to Susan • • •Addresses on here have to include the server you signed up on.
Susan
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in reply to Susan • • •When you search for an address, it will bring up a profile you can follow.
This works whether you're logged in with apps or the website.
Liz Ellis She/Herš³
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •So if I want to have a look at say @mas.to, to see if I like it and want to hang there, I need to create an @mas.to account?
I'd like to check out other instances to find a cool place to hang out, but can't see into any of them other than @mastodon.social.
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in reply to Liz Ellis She/Herš³ • • •No no, it's exactly the opposite. The instances aren't separate forums, they're more like ways into a single common forum.
I'm not on mastodon.social, but you can see me and I can see you. Mastodon servers talk to each other, so it doesn't really matter if people are on different servers, they can still interact.
Here's another analogy: with one single mobile phone, you can phone anyone, on any provider, in any country. This works because phone providers have connected their networks together.
Mastodon is the same, but for social media. Even if we sign up on different servers, we can interact and join in with discussions together because the servers are connected into a single network.
If you want to find interesting discussions the best way is to search for hashtags, follow interesting people, post public posts with hashtags. If you're logged in through the website there's an "Explore" section with popular posts from 24 hours.
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in reply to Liz Ellis She/Herš³ • • •There is no such thing as a silly question here, please do let me know if I can help more š
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •(Some do, but itās not clear how they are different)
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in reply to Anna Nicholson • • •Could you let me know which links don't work? And are you viewing Mastodon through the web or through an app?
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in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •This was using the Mast iOS app, which is one of several Iām experimenting with
It seems itās the only one with that issue š¤·āāļø
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in reply to Anna Nicholson • • •It looks from the app's listing as though Mast is not being maintained any more?
I can't find a website for the developer so it's difficult to tell, but unfixed bugs might explain the behaviour.
Anna Nicholson
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •Pity, as itās one of the prettier apps, with easy-to-read not-to-high-contrast text
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Unknown parent • • •Servers are independent with their own member lists.
However, the servers talk to each other which means you can interact without having to join any other servers.
For example, I'm on mastodon.online while you're on mastodon.social. But we are able to interact as if we were on one network.
It's like email, you don't need a yahoo account to send mail to a yahoo address.
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Unknown parent • • •If you want to interact with someone on here, it doesn't matter what server they're on, you just interact with them.
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in reply to David Rodriguez Jr. • • •Just put the website addresses including https:// at the start, they will automatically turn into clickable links.
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