I think https://streetpass.social/ mastodon extension is a must have for all users of Mastodon. Such a nice way to know about all the amazing folks who create content that you are reading. Thanks @tvler for creating it
I'm giving Mastodon a shot again, but with different goals than last time, so I suppose another #introduction post is in order?
I am many things, but typically, I am a bumbling husband, awkward father, recovering alcoholic, ageing computer enthusiast, generalized anxiety disorderer, wannabe smol web developer, science fiction fan, D&D play-by-poster, repair tech, patch collector and worker rights advocate.
I want to change careers with the hope of eventually doing the digital nomad thing.
@tinsmith Welcome back! 🥳 Mastodon didn't work for me the first time either. What helped: be generous with follows, hashtags, and image descriptions. #welcome
I stayed at a hostel earlier this week which had this whiteboard in the dining area with the greeting “welcome!!” in
various #languages. I was a little tempted to ask them to change “Aloha!!” to “Welina mai!!” which would be a better translation of #welcome. “Aloha” is more of a generic greeting. But, at least most people will recognize #aloha! #OleloHawaii#LearnHawaiian#hawaiian
👋 Hello! #welcome to all those joining #mastodon recently. #Introduction I am a freelance GIS Trainer and Consultant, primarily training new #gis users in #qgis and #r I also toot @CaGIS as Cartorgraphic Editor and am Chair of @osgeouk. Enjoy the fediverse!
I joined mastodon today because the CEO of #tumblr had a complete meltdown recently when people called him out for deleting a trans woman's blog because she posted a transition timeline. The vibes were definitely off, just doesn't feel like a safe place right now. I'd love to follow more #trans and #queer folks on here! This is my second social media account (third if you count myspace. omg should I go back to myspace??) so I need all the help I can get with navigating this place.
This is a federation of independent servers using different platforms to navigate it. Start with the one that looks most fitting to your needs. You can migrate and take your contacts but not your posts with you later.
Chose an instance from an EU country due to #PrivacyRights.
Apparently, Tumblr's CEO stepped on his crank and outed himself as a TERF. We does not abide the TERF. No we doesn't.
If you're fleeing #Tumblr and checking out the #fediverse, welcome! I hope you find a home here. You have quite a few options with #Mastodon, #Miskey, #Firefish#Sharkey (I'm posting this from sharkey.world), and the practically thousands of instances within those. Each have their own flavor and features, so don't feel you have to settle on one off the bat. It's not unusual to see new users sign up on one instance, then eventually move to another, then another before they find the community that fits them best.
Looking for something more "bloggy"? Bear Blog and Pika are two services offering simple blogging tools with an emphasis on "small blogging". They are unassociated with the major blogging platforms and offer a fresh alternative to them.
I want to say thanks to @Tardis for coming aboard as our new moderator here on AllThingsTech. It would be great for y’all to give her a nice welcome also!
She will be helping myself and @cliffwade here on the server and helping us grow it as well as the #ATT community!
She's a wonderful individual with great ideas, so please, drop her a follow, welcome her and of course congratulate her!
I'd like for all of you amazing individuals to give a HUGE, WARM WELCOME to @Tardis who has accepted the position of moderator for #AllThingsTech as of today!
She will be helping myself and @beardedtechguy do some amazing things here on the server and helping us grow the server as well as the #ATT community!
She's a great individual with a lot of great ideas, so please, drop her a follow, welcome her and of course congratulate her!
@Wileymiller Welcome! It’s great to see you here. 😀 If you’re looking for help figuring things out, check out @FediTips. Also, @FediFollows can help with finding interesting accounts. I hope you really enjoy your time here!
I waited a decade & half? for an edit button on a major corporate media silo (#Twitter). When it finally arrived it required a monthly fee, and by then I had already left some time ago!
There are tons of clever people making things all the time on the #Fedi. This is part of it's strength. The #Fediverse actually innovates much faster and also in more interesting iterations and directions than the monetization driven corporate social media silos. Decisions made for users, are better for users, than decisions made for shareholders.
There are a lot of different interesting front end projects. These let us access our home servers via an app or an alternate webpage front end.
#Icecubes#Mona#Tusky#Elk are a few examples of #Mastodon front end projects. Many of these have some unique features that vanilla webpage Mastodon doesn't yet.
We can always access our servers by just typing their address in to an internet browser to get the regular webpage frontend too.
Everything is all connected, these are just a few examples of additional ways of navigating & experiencing. So we can use several routes, depending on need, mood or device. Regardless of which frontend we use, our account(s) remain the same so it's safe to experiment and try things out. #Help#HelpThread#Welcome#New#Newbies#NewHere#FediTips