#Newbie
@lennardvanotterloo @haubles @bmann @mozilla @medium @atomicpoet
Content=big draw!
Populate hashtags, pin threads, expand over time. Some my pins I add to:
#Music vids/songs #playlists
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109474577812396358
#Newbie guide helpthread
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109363125342380109
#Foodbanks
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109473907509135895
#Recipes
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109694334836018493
#ADHD
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109449642003766517
#Photographs
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109717452027581060
#Funny
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109690317739853809
Honestly what made my #twittermigration easier was using https://bird.makeup/ created by @Vincent@librem.one because there are just some accounts that won't leave #Twitter and this gives me that stop gap for information and none of the drama.
Hello #new #Mastodon users! Welcome!
Three pieces of advice to help you adapt to the differences between this place and the bird site:
1 . Be sure to complete your bio and upload a profile image of some kind.
2. Follow maybe 200 interesting people right away. Otherwise the place will seem dead, because there are no algorithms to point content at you.
3. Make a point of using #hashtags about 20 times as often as you did on the bird site.
Have fun! This place is much better.
Mastodon is approaching Ten Million accounts. 10, 000,000!!! Many of these new accounts will not have any idea what Mastodon and the Fediverse is about. Please share with any #newbie #new people you come across, the answers they are seeking about Mastodon, the Fediverse and Everything (almost) all in one place:
#newbie #newhere part of the #birdsite exodus? Take a look here and watch the video:
https://fedi.tips/
💫 As someone who has always been passionate about cybersecurity, I'll be honest: I still have much to learn. That's why I'm excited to use this space as an opportunity to share my experience of learning about the cybersecurity industry 📚 I also plan to use this platform not only to share my thoughts and ideas but also to document and preserve my own journey of learning about the industry 📝
Throughout my journey, I will explore various topics related to cybersecurity, including both fundamental knowledge and specific threats and defence strategies. As I learn more, I will share my experience and knowledge with all of you. And I believe that by sharing what I have learnt, I will be able to help others who are also interested in cybersecurity, or don't know how to start their own personal ZeroToHero journey 🚀
Of course, I will be happy to receive any feedback and comments from readers who have more experience in this area than I do 🙌.
So, whether you are a beginner or an experienced cybersecurity professional, I hope you will join me on this journey of discovery. Together, we can all become better informed and better prepared to protect our digital assets from cyber threats 🌐.
some more lovely people on Mastodon, thanks for following :
@Nerina
@Sollenbum
@monicahulsing
@Dell
#NewFollowers #Newbie #Recommended #Recomendations #FollowFriday #FollowFridayEveryDay
@nellshamrell I think I just started them too early. #newbie
Trying to understand #explore (with no args). It does a good job of showing me interesting content. If I come back a small amount of time later, it shows pretty much the same stuff. If I come back a few hours later, it shows some new stuff interspersed with old stuff. What I want: primarily new stuff. If I come back a whole day later, I get nearly all new stuff. What I do: scroll quickly, looking at timestamps, and only looking at things with small numbers there. Tedious.
#newbie
@3dprinting Switched recently my ender3 S1 to klipper, got some great initial prints and started to fine tune it, now I think I’m printing too far away from the bed: already got 2 failed prints, doing something clearly wrong. Someone can point me how to properly level the bed, “paper test” it’s distance, save the bed mesh and how to properly retrieve it in the start code with klipper? #klipper #bedleveling #bltouch #ender3s1 #newbie
Excited to join the Mastodon community! Looking forward to connecting with like-minded individuals and learning about new topics. Let's start some interesting conversations! #Mastodon #Newbie #Community #opensource #data
Welcome!
If you like #comics, #nerd #geek stuff, #rpgs, #conlife, #cosplay, #games, #LetsPlay videos, and such, #follow me and I will #followback.
#TwitterMigration #LeaveTwitterDay #TwitterExodus #Newbie #Newbies #Welcome #Willkommen
My daughter asked me how to build a website. We started with the basics:
- What are HTML, CSS, and JS (bones, muscles, etc.)
- HTML tags (open and close like crocodiles' mouths)
- Basic structure of a webpage (an empty bread sandwich)
- Tags and attributes
- Tags learned today: html, head, title, body, p, and img.
Seeing her face when she first refreshed the web page was priceless.
This screenshot is her first web page
¿Habéis visto que ya ha aterrizado por aquí el equipo de @icmabCSIC? Es de los pocos centros de investigación españoles que he visto en Mastodon. Bienvenidxs. 😉
#Newbie #ScienceMastodon #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #scicomm #ComunicaCiencia #AcademicMastodon
check out these great accounts, thanks for following :
@RedExile
@BrianHarrod
@mycotropic
@moodreading
@NatriceR
@Shablingo
@Ard
@omdaru
#NewFollowers #Newbie #Recommended #Recomendations #FollowFriday #FollowFridayEveryDay
Hey y'all!! Go follow @Emma_amelia and make her feel welcome!! She is an intermediate web designer and all around cool person. #newbie #welcometothefediverse #introductions
So, a company rep says to me, "Please remove the quote you attributed to me. I know I posted it in a public forum online, but my company has a policy against being represented in the media." What would you do? Keep it, anonymize it, remove it?
This quote captures my thoughts: “Journalism,” it was once said, “is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” Source: https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/the-difference-between-pr-and-journalism
Making my first steps on Databricks, any tips?
There was six-and-a-half hours of debate for #Brighton and #Hove's budget for 2023/24 https://www.moreradio.online/news/sussex-news/services-saved-in-brighton-and-hove-but-council-tax-bills-will-rise/
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23344410.brighton-hove-city-council-budget-round-up/
https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/sussex/news/council-tax-rise-for-brighton-and-hove-residents-approved/ #LDreporter #newbie
@HyL @mariapopova @Halperta @XanIndigo Thanks, eh. Mind you, sometimes it is nice just to shout into the void. #newbie #how to
Since years I wanted it but only when everything is perfect from the start.
Today I overcame perfectionism and launched my #yt channel today. #newbie
https://youtube.com/@cryptobiont
Soooo... Recent transplant from Windows to #MacOS here. And I'm still unlearning/relearning. What is the standard way of writing to #NTFS drives from Mac? Going the 3rd party driver route? Which one has the community embraced? I am trying to update my data on an external hard drive I've had for a while. Thanks! #n00b #newbie
@atomicpoet great post, Chris. Lots of work to do for results. As a #newbie I wonder about everyone's work disappearing for ever after a few days. All that effort gone.
I realise the cost of storage with private funding makes it imperative. Still sad that all the gems (and rubbish) are lost for ever.
Cómo renombrar una rama de Git https://geekytheory.com/como-renombrar-una-rama-de-git/ #newbie
Why does raising a PR always give me so much anxiety. Will this eventually go away and I'll turn into a YOLO type of engineer?!
#development #engineering #PR #newbie
There’s been a lot of drama with instances in the past few months. Is this normal for Mastodon? 🤔 #newbie
Another #mastodon #newbie question. Almost any time I look at someone's profile, I can see their follow-er/ing counts. If I click those, I generally just se me. I know there's an option for people not to share their social graph, but is this a default? Do I have to go to their profile on their own instance? This behaviour has ffollowed me across several apps now and it is a confusion to my poor brain.
check out these great accounts, thanks for following :
@Anthronet
@MetisCaron
@backpackandsnorkel
@KatieKinsman
#NewFollowers #Newbie #Recommended #Recomendations #FollowFriday #FollowFridayEveryDay
Great to see so many new folk here on #Mastodon - Welcome and Toot Toot to you all! 👋🎺🎶
It's a lovely positive place full of interesting people! Good tips for #MastodonBeginner:
- Set up an #Introduction post, tell us all who you are!
- Use lots of #Hashtags so people can find your posts
- Follow a few accounts with your interests and you'll start seeing great content of interest to YOU! Unlike the #Birdsite the content here is in your hands 🙂
@supernovae Hey! Thanks! The server looks great! I am quite new to Mastodon. I am reading some guides now to understand how to use it properly.
@FediGarden Thanks for the list of country instances. I tried to follow the one in my country and all of a sudden I need a #Mastodon sign-in. What about the #Fediverse? #newbie Take it easy.
WashPo list:
https://mastodon.social/@drewharwell/109551525081139777
And also use this tool, it will tell you who the people you follow have in common in their follows:
followgraph.vercel.app/
@atomicpoet #newbie Well done Chris. Couldn't agree more. My experience in Nov 2022 exactly.
Compare the experience of signing up with #Birdsite?
I was lucky, finding #hachyderm where I am happy to find my way around slowly. We are not all hyper geeks.
Just trying this out. Starting over is hard. Having trouble finding people. #newbie #MastodonVirgin
Well, hello there. Must regroup and think of something clever to say #newbie #introductions
@markwyner #newbie here. Where can I find the lively, friendly debate about #camelCase? It has been bothering me for some time that I see the last post of what has obviously been a discussion thread. This is just one example. of many.
And something else. Where can I find my posts properly organized? They just seem to disappear. Help please.
‼️🐘 Here’s a little tip for newbies here:
I know you might be just sticking your toes in and lurking but I highly recommend you post an introduction and fill-in your bio a little before you follow anyone. I think you’ll have a much better experience if people are interested in following you back.
please add hashtags to this. There are no algorithms here on mastodon. We want this available to everyone.
#introduction #newbie #sciencemastodon
E.g #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #COVIDIOTS
#SarsCoV2 #CovidisAirborne
Okay wtf— I directly linked one of his posts and when I click it I get an error message
Can anyone #help #mastodonhelp #newbie #instanceproblem #imBadAtHashtagsToo
@amberage can you help maybe?
Subscribed to my first Pixelfed feed (@swansinflight).
I still haven't goten my head around how ActivityPub works (subscribing to a Pixelfed server on Mastodon...) but I'm looking forward to pretty pictures.
You see….. Mastodon pops because frankly, #mastodon isn’t for dummies. So what you have here is groups of fairly intelligent people who are intentional with both their social media use and time. As a result, you immediately avoid a lot of the toxic, basicbtch energy you get on twitter.
I am having such a great time on this platform and I haven’t even started to SCRATCH the surface yet.
Should be fun.
One thing I like about the birdsite is that I can see what's trending in the UK or Europe and get an idea on what's happening in my part of the world.
I'm finding that my Mastodon experience on the Explore feed is increasingly dominated by the US and I would like to see more of UK and Europe.
Is the Explore feed affected by which instance you're on? Would I be better off switching to different instance?
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Instance #newbie #hashtags
Actually got out on my board for a little bit today. I built it in the middle of summer, then wiped out being a little too ambitious at the skate park and messed up my arm (I used to skate as a kid and forgot I was 30 now), then life and weather got in the way and I'm only just now getting back out there. Still cannot ollie to save my life, but I got a little more comfortable on this thing and I'm pushing forward on my resolutions. ❤️
By the end of the year, the bottom of this board will be ruined and I will be airborne (and ideally not in the hospital).
Everyone does the fediverse differently, but I've decided to build a community, not an audience.
What does this mean? Well I always follow back so my following/follower counts remain roughly balanced.
Also, I don't subscribe to hash tags so that my home feed is exclusively my community.
And when I want to address an audience, I will use hashtags.
I've been doing this a month and it's working very well so far.
#uk #fediverse #community #iFollowBack #introduction #follow #newbie #mastodon
Assuming there will be a flood of new users now that “the site that shall not be named” isn’t working with 3rd party apps. It’s probably a great time to promote some of the better #newbie guides and best apps.
Some Mastodon 101 links I think are good:
- https://www.theverge.com/23519279/mastodon-instance-follow-friend
- https://www.cultofmac.com/796714/move-to-mastodon/
Favorite iOS apps:
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastoot/id1501485410
- http://tapbots.com/ivory/
- https://mastodon.social/@JPEGuin/109315609418460036
Feel free to boost and reply with your favorites.
#help #GettingStarted #Mastodon101 #iOSApps
#newbie question (sorry!) I’ve seen some posts which are much longer than 500 characters. Is it an instance setting that permits this or did I miss something very obvious?
#Newbie recommendation - #MastodonTips
If you just arrived: before you start following people, it’s a good idea to:
fill up your profile info (yes, it seems like self-promotion, but you just have to do it once)
write up an “Introduction” post (using the actual introduction hashtag) ideally describing what you think you’ll post about
then, start following people: when they’ll go to check your profile because they got a follow notification, they can use these elements to decide to follow you and boost your intro post 👍
Welcome and have fun!!
Maybe you're not into writing. I get it. So maybe "Launch a podcast" is on your 2023 to-do list…? If so, I thought this might be of interest. #podcast #newbie #event #online https://www.meetup.com/portland-podcast-cooperative/events/290601289/
Good Day/Evening. #WELCOME Glad to see all the new faces..
If you feel lost of what to do.. here is a short but great video explain what #Mastodon is
https://p.lu/w/cwkbSrtr6CGBna2WeT6QVx
I am not looking for anything. Just to help everyone enjoy what #FOSS means to me.
#Newbie #introduction #twittermigration #twitterexodus #birdsite #new #newhere #mastodonmigration #MastodonTips
(#newbie thread attempt)
Walk in the snowy #NewHampshire...
part 1: the forest
1/
Unlocked without key! It’s not as easy as lock picking lawyer makes it seem :blobhaj_blanket:
One of the things I have liked about Mastodon is the encouragement to put alt-text on images. But as others have noticed, the more the network of mastodonians grows, the proportion of images with alt-text goes down.
It's not hard - please please PLEASE add alt-text to your images, even if it's just a quick note, and better if it's more descriptive.
Happy Christmas everyone!
If anyone has recently (or not so recently) travelled from the UK to Australia, please let me know.
I'm doing that very trip soon and need to pick an experienced person's brain.
#travelling #TripToAustralia #FirstTimeAbroad #newbie #flying #holidays
@malwaretech Marcus, you make a great case for No-QT. I'd like to support it with a seperate and totally benign use-case.
As a consumer of news—I'm not a journalist. I love #journalists. My whole #newbie #mastodon experience is made up of journalists (+ #lists)—I hope OP will consider:
When I am on the #birdsite I run through news, and QTs of news, as if on a coke-snorting bender. OK, yes QTs can give context and perhaps even nuance.. but all the 🔥🔥 hot takes 🔥🔥 give me a distinct feeling i had already consumed & digested any said article. I rarely linked through and actually read work of any said journalist, maybe a para or two—had to get back to ripping through those QTs!
Set aside for now the issue of harassing and trolling. Let's say my setup allowed me to ignore all that noise.. (it didn't, and I partook) but ignoring all that—I am still a very bad, dumbed down version of myself in the fastlane approach.
I've stated in a number of #introduction posts how mastodon forces me to slow down. Sometimes it frustrates me. But over here, and this is what I'd like the OP to grok: I actually READ the news. I jump to articles at least 6x as often; my bookmarks are actually meaningful; and LISTS! omg LISTS! Over there at least 1 in 4 (making that up i have no idea—but a lot!) bios are hostile to lists and will block you for inclusion.
Perhaps some of the non-features for journalists are inconvenient to work flow. But from POV of readers—wow. You have a smarter, engaged, joyful audience who actually reads your work.
It's a cold, rainy, dark winter's day, so here's a cheery painting of Snoopy decorating his house for Christmas 🥰 🌲 ☃️ #art #artist #artistsonmastodon #artshare #advent #AdventCalendar #winter #December #friday #NewHere #newbie #dog #Snoopy #christmas #Christmastree #Lights #painting
Has anyone used an app like Debirdify, Fedifinder, or Twitodon to find Twitter contacts here? Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks! :)
If you want to ask any questions here, either about the #helpthread above, or just general #Fediverse questions, I'll answer all the ones I can.
#Help #Newbie #FediTips #HelpThread #New #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Everyone does the fediverse differently, but I've decided to build a community, not an audience.
What does this mean? Well, from now on, I'm going to follow back so my following/follower counts remain roughly balanced.
I'm also going to unsubscribe from hash tags so that my home feed is exclusively my community.
And when I want to address an audience, I will use hashtags
#uk #fediverse #community #iFollowBack #introduction #follow #newbie #mastodon