Bref et bien c'est à nouveau moi. Toujours vieille, toujours anarchiste, toujours avec un chat noir.
Toujours syndiquée dans une confédération sectaire qui pratique la calomnie.
Toujours envie de monter (enfin) un hackerspace anarchiste (qui vous apprendra à ne pas faire de ménage trop violent sur votre serveur au risque de perdre la clé pour déchiffrer la sauvegarde de votre instance mastodon indisponible...)
Toujours joueuse de jeux vidéo si je peux jouer un personnage féminin sinon difficile de se mettre dans la peau du personnage tout ça💩.
Very grateful for all those who’ve #followed already but still struggling despite the advice to find any old mutual follows. If you fancy sending some of your followers my way to enrich my #mastodon experience, that would be ace.
There aren't many sports journalists on #Mastodon. Most take the lazy #Bluesky option because it looks and feels a bit like Twitter. Even more just stay on that sinking ship while the band plays on. Jason deserves a follow here for making the effort.
I'm excited to be here, posting from a fresh instance. In this space, I'll be an enigma - no faces, no physical descriptions. Think of me as a canvas for ideas and thoughts, an ethereal presence in the digital realm.
Here, it's all about the words and the world they create. I'm the voice you'll read, the thoughts you'll ponder.
Thank you for pausing on my profile. To everyone reading this, I hope your day could be wonderful.
Let's embark on this journey of abstract conversations and meaningful exchanges. Looking forward to connecting with you all.
OSS tip: properly setup your account (at least get yourself a nice avatar) before sending a help request in a community chat or in GitHub. Bonus: If you see a #welcome channel, introduce yourself and share a bit of what your are building before. You'll feel the difference.
New to Mastodon and confused about why you don't see anything on your home feed and nobody interacts with your posts?
Follow people. Fedi has no algorithm beyond the "explore" tab. It works completely by follow relationships. The more people you follow with similar interests, the more likely they'll follow you back. Not to mention your home feed will be filled by their toots.
Hashtags. Full indexed search is EXTREMELY new and some instances haven't upgraded yet. Even then, some users don't want EVERY toot of theirs to be discoverable so they turn that feature off. However, Hashtags are always searchable for public toots. Litter your posts with relevant hashtags so people can find your toots!
Ch.7 #Likes vs #Boosts / #RePosts
⭐(& other reaction buttons) are the❤️button but this only tells the author I like their post, nobody else. It does not make the post more visible.
🔁Boost🔁Repost etc moves info around. That shows the post to my followers home feed.
There is no algorithm deciding for us. We choose, not some algorithm under corporate control. We choose by 🔁boosting🔁 posts and by using #hashtags. More things get seen here. Wider ranges of conversation topics happen here. It's more organic, much more human.
Be kind, take the extra moment. Fediverse has a solid reputation for inclusion, for thinking about others, we must keep it going. #Fedi#FediTips#new#Help#Newbies#Welcome
Ch.11
I can think of #Fediverse being like a fleet, with many types & sizes of ships. Different social platforms. Different sizes of servers. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. We're a fleet.
Multiple feeds reflect different ways of seeing posts from across the fleet. They can have different names but broadly they fall in to 5 categories.
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow. Whatever ship they currently call home. Posts from multiple social platforms, any servers.
⛴️Local, my server =everyone local on this ship (my current account server location).
🚢Federated, other servers = 1 step beyond, people that my locals are connected to, have followed or are searching.
#Hashtag feeds = posts using the hashtag you are interested in.
🎏Custom feeds = feeds with criteria I can define & refine over time.
Ch.12 #BeKind
This place is built on kindness, on respecting each other, on listening, on benefit of the doubt, on not trying to 'win' conversations but learn from them. Humans beings are varied, that makes life interesting.
I must not leap to be be negative back. Maybe they just have too much stress today. If I have to I can block. If troll servers turn up, it's a couple of clicks to block an entire server if I need to - but probably the mod heroes will be on it already anyway. #Welcome#Newbies#New#NewHere#TwitterMigration#Help#FediTips
Ch.14 #Content
If there are subjects I don't want to deal with I can set filter words in my profile settings which will stop certain topics.
#Fediverse & it's different platforms + software have masses of clever tools, & different ways to adjust access & content.
We can communicate with people all over the Fediverse platforms seamlessly. Crucially we have masses of control over how & who we interact with. Block words, turn off boosts (eg by account), mute accounts, block accounts, block whole servers, shift servers ourselves.
We own this place, we control our experience. Nobody is inserting stuff in our timelines because someone paid them to modify what we see & find.
Ch.16 #Visibility
Having more followers does not make my posts more visible.
Following fewer people does not make my posts more visible.
Receiving faves does not make my posts more visible.
Ch.17 #Design
Some very clever people have been building this place, and they did not build it to monetize us, but to make people's connections better.
The code here is all open source. Without advertisers, shareholders, CEOs, venture capitalists.
There is no reason to make us anxious or aggressive. To make us click more, scroll faster or argue with each other. There is no1 to trade clicks & scrolls & posts to for ad$.
Everything runs on donations & volunteer time + skills.
CH.20
I realise #Fediverse is an evolving co-operating culture with it's common underlying protocol (#ActivityPub) linking many things. No 1 platform is trying to lock up all my attention in their walled garden to see their ads.
I can have several accounts, I can use several platforms. I can keep my circles, but I'm also free to move around & try new things as they emerge.
On phone or tablet or desktop, I can have many apps, but also a simple browser window will let me access the #Fedi in it's different flavours.
Ch.21
If we are after a particular feature that maybe we liked elsewhere, just ask if that feature is available! People are super helpful here and someone will come along to tell us all about options. #FediHelp is a great tag for that.
There are a lot of different front ends to use with your account/s. Some are apps we install to use with our Fedi accounts, some are browser based. Many of the Fedi's platform have all kinds of cool things in the settings too. #Help#Welcome#New#NewHere#SocialMedia#TwitterMigration#FediTips#Newbies
Ch.22
The different platforms work together, they communicate and evolve together.
It's more than fine to play around in the different platforms. It's actually a liberating thing, to not be locked to one platform as we were before.
Having all these options might sound complex, but using Fediverse community social is not like choosing a corporate social media platform. Your friends messages and communication spread across the community of platforms in the Fedi. It's not choosing 1 platform over another or getting stuck.
This site is a nice overview for some of the different Fedi platforms and what they do in co-operation, which corporate sites do apart.
Ch.24
On the #Fedi a far greater variety of topics of conversation happen. This is because there aren't algorithms trying to 'drive engagement' by click-baiting us toward a narrow set of extreme takes about today's small range of topics/conversations.
There are various ways of seeing trends of conversation, on our local server, various trending hashtags access, like explore sections or trending widgets in our chosen front end.