#welcome
#Welcome to the #fediverse
Here you can find some ideas on how to grow your #network and have a rewarding experience on #Mastodon and beyond.
The most important thing: people are the #algorithm.
@BinGanzBrav Hallöchen und #welcome 🙋
🎉 A warm welcome to Céline Lauer (Welt/Welt am Sonntag)! 📝 We're thrilled to have her join us as our first Journalist in Residence. Looking forward to collaborating and sharing our work! #SpatialResearch #ScienceJournalism #Welcome #wisskomm #sfb1265
I've just created a new group for #cyclists, particularly the #transportcyclist #commutercyclist or #envirocyclist in Melbourne, Australia. @melbournebicycles
Being a Guppe group, there appears to be no admin or personalisation, but it's free to use. If your plan is to play nicely, simply click on the "at-link" above, follow and post away.
Post your bike holidays, social rides, bug meetings, pothole reports, petitions, or non-defamatory whinges about motorists. (Australia's defamation can eff us up for the littlest things, don't kill the golden goose.) Importantly, be nice and treat it as fun.
And PLEASE, share widely with like-minded friends on "the wheel."
#welcome
Your "unadmin"
@crunchysteve
#welcome
Hello fedi-folk, new to actually using social media so consider this a WIP
Im going around following people that look cool, so if I send a random follow its because I thought you were neat!
Im Ace and in a poly triad so you know im good at mediating (also helps with dnd). Developer by day, sometimes musician, cook and video game player by night
Hey folks, since the latest wave of immigrants is ongoing, if you have some spare time, try following the #introduction hashtag and saying hi to or boosting some new people. Something we all keep hearing is that the #onboarding to #Mastodon is a little bewildering, so if you like it here, help out the new folx!
@Sinisterer #welcome aboard. Glad you could join us!
58 Boosts and 92 Favourites on my pinned intro!?! Wwoooosh! I haven’t had this much positive reinforcement since my 1980s trestle refit!
#grateful #introductions #welcome #railway
✨🥥🎉🌟🥥🎉🌟🥥🌟
✨#Welcome To The #Dance!🌟
🎧 Play All: https://wp.me/p3M3L5-tv #Introduction
#Breaks #DJMixes #DnB #JukeboxFridayNight #Jungle #KitchenDisco #MaQuest #MastoRadio #MixCloud #NowPlaying #Plattenspieler #PouetRadio #RadioToot #RaggaJungle #Schallplattenspieler #SommesLaRadio #TootRadio #VinylDJ #WeAreTheRadio
@SooperDude24 @misc you don't *have* to be either but I'd bet you're both. 😊
#Welcome! :blobcatflower:
We are delighted to welcome @GhodsiSiamak@twitter.com to our team as a #VisitingResearcher!
Siamak is a researcher @l3s_luh@twitter.com and a PhD student @FU_Berlin@twitter.com. His research is focused on #FairCommunityDetection as part of the @NoBIAS_ITN@twitter.com project.
My Deep Hospitality Keynote, part of the Testimonies to Mercy series, is now available to watch online. It touches on community, acceptance, and real welcome. "This keynote knocked my socks off!" according to Michael Willett Newheart on Facebook.
@vautee @lk Und für Personen denen overpass turbo zu kompliziert ist, gibts auf MapComplete auch eine eigene Karte dafür: https://mapcomplete.osm.be/bookcases.html?language=en&filter-kid-books=&filter-adult-books=#welcome
Da kann man dann auch sehr einfach neue Bücherkästen hinzufügen, usw.
日本晶片短缺停售 Suica、PASMO 實體卡 Welcome Suica 卡不受影響
自從通關後，小編身邊有不少朋友也去了日本，說到日本，由 JR 東日本發行的「日本版八達通」 Suica 卡相信 […]
The post 日本晶片短缺停售 Suica、PASMO 實體卡 Welcome Suica 卡不受影響 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.
#城中熱話 #Suica #Welcome Suica #日本
https://unwire.hk/2023/06/05/japan-stop-selling-suica-pasmo/hottopic/spotlight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-stop-selling-suica-pasmo
Hey, I’m new here! 👋 What are some accounts I can follow?
I like Linux gaming, Steam Deck, retro gaming, and jail breaking.
@meghansmith @gbhnews Newbies, particularly journos, #welcome!
@meghansmith @gbhnews Hi Meghan, #welcome to the Fediverse! Looking forward to your reporting.
This is the lovely Kevin 😍. He lives at our school and he often comes to greet me ( or perhaps I am greeting him??) each morning. He rolls and wriggles around for pats. I am not very good at getting clear photos while crouching patting him.
#catsofmastodon
#welcome
#happycathappyhuman
Here is a perfect example of how Mastodon works. Stacy came to Mastodon in November. She has 513 followers. She posts interesting wildlife info I enjoy, but without hashtags. I just discovered her now because someone I follow boosted her post within a timeframe that I would see in my timeline.
Lesson:
• use hashtags
• boost liberally
Also, look at her account and follow if so inclined.
https://urbanists.social/@dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org
#Welcome
#mastodonmigration
#INe0edAListOfHashtagsICantEverThinkOf😃
Welcome, Jaden!
I'm Betsy, I'm an old fart who doesn't mind being 66 years old because it beats the alternative. I have an active life of #gardening, #traveling & being a #cat #mom.
And I'm going to be a #grandma later this year! So excited!
Oh, almost forgot, I'm a slow #runner currently #training for an upcoming 5k and then a week later a 10k, and finally the major drawback in my life is that I have to pee all the time because I'm an olds.
#Welcome, to the #Fediverse, Brian. Pleased to meet you.
As you are new here, you might find these points helpful to grow your network here:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109960697083138864
As well as understanding the "algorithm" here: https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110377402520161574
Last, but not least, @https://mastodon.social/@stefan@stefanbohacek.online's brand new website is quite helpful for a starter:
#Tauschregal: Wenn Du weißt, wo eines ist, kannst du das hier in der #OpenStreetmap eintragen:
https://mapcomplete.osm.be/bookcases?z=12&lat=54.33704&lon=10.09712&language=de&filter-kid-books=&filter-adult-books=#welcome
@alicia @medium You could tag that with #Introduction for a wider audience - Oops, you already did, it's 3am, I can't read proper after 3am :)
@davebriggs Waving from Twitter and LinkedIn connections. #Welcome 😃 use the hashtags #data #governance #digital #publicsector
An introduction for our #server as we are accepting new #users!
#AllThingsTech is a #Mastodon #Community focused around #tech (any and all!). We #welcome #technologists, #coders, #engineers, #gadget lovers, self professed “#geeks” and anyone with an interest and love of tech. If that’s you - you’ve found your home in the #FediVerse!
Sign up @ https://allthingstech.social
#Home #Welcome #MastodonMigration #TwitterMigration #NicePeople #Introduction
Thank you for the #welcome 🙂 appreciated
☮️
they are not equivalent so...
Technology wise, under the hood they are very different.
Not all instances share all posts in the same hashtag, but each instance includes posts into a hashtag that it federates with or that their own users show an interest in.
The groups hosted by a.gup.pe, anyone who subscribes to...will get the posts from.
Thus hashtags are a bit more "chaotic groups"...and a.gup.pe groups are a bit more organized due to how federation works technologically and how on one instance you'll view a hashtag and you'll see I dunno 1000 posts and on another instance it will display 0 posts for that same hashtag.
Kinda confusing but they are different and have different target audiences and different use cases.
Probably using the combination of both when you need them is wise.
The #EpiscopalChurch of the Redeemer is now accepting donations to replace the vandalized #welcome #sign because the church's #insurance is unlikely to cover the cost of #repair
According to Black, the total cost of replacing the sign, which was installed in 2016, is $15,050.
Hi people on Calckey and Hi dear Followers,
The move / transfer of my account anamsona(at)fimidi.com to Calckey is finished.
From 759 Follower I can see up to now 734.
I hope everybody who's missing me, will find me again.
I'm happy to welcome you all (again) with a picture of a beautiful evening atmosphere
#AccountMigration #welcome #Ireland #evening #bay #Beara #water #coast #landscape #photographie #nature
🐁 Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #Dexter #Michigan USA 🇺🇸 - Title:
🔴 "Nadine and the Welcoming
World.
🔵 "Nadine und die Begrüßung
der Welt."
#StreetArt #SidewalkChalk #Art #Chalkart #Mouse #Welcome #HelloWorld #WipeYourFeet 👣
#GoodMorning ! ☕🥐
Day15
There is no central architect.
There are some people on the Fediverse who contribute a lot, but there are no Emperors, no Kings. Power is distributed out & shared, and not a pyramid with rulers atop. The rest of the network can just adapt around any figure. The Fediverse can't be bought and sold.
This means my social is not at the whims of negotiating with some central figure, who is unlikely to register I even exist. If I want something different, I can move around the Fediverse to where it's happening that way, even set up my own space if I want.
#Fediverse #FediFriday #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #SocialMedia #social
Day14
You can start off in the Fediverse from any platform, so maybe this one.
Maybe you begin with Calckey (this here)/Misskey or Mastodon or Pixelfed (a bit like Instagram). You will soon appreciate your freedom to add other platforms without having to start over from scratch like with the big corporate social walled enclosures that separate their user bases. I post seamlessly from Calckey to my Mastodon followers for example.
3 helpful sites to explore:
An over view of the Fediverse, a co-operation of social platforms. Imagine Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, Medium, Reddit but co-operating, inter-operating and developing to benefit all the users not some billionaires.
https://jointhefediverse.net/
Calckey servers
https://calckey.org/
Where did your Twitter contacts go? Automatically reconnect to your Twitter people from the many different Fediverse platforms.
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #SocialMedia #social #SocialMedia #social
Day13
I realise #Fediverse is an evolving co-operating culture with common protocol linking many things. No platform is trying to lock up all my attention in their walled garden.
I can have several accounts, try & use several platforms, keep my circles across all & I'm free to move around. Exporting and importing followers, migrating, these are all #Fediverse core principles. Freely social, not captive eyeballs.
On phone tablet desktop, I can have apps and/or I can open simple browser windows +just type an instance's address. There are many ways to login & communicate across the #Fediverse.
This idea is a revolution in itself. How much effort did I lose on doomed corporation farms that were jealously trying to carve out separately, wall away and own their userbase. Myspace, Google+, Facebook, Twitter.
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #SocialMedia #social
Day12
#Fediverse has many apps & projects, many servers, many mod teams. This is its strength.
No1 can buy it up.
The code is all open source. No advertisers. There is no reason to make us anxious or aggressive to make us click more or scroll faster, there is no1 to trade clicks & scrolls to for ad$.
Everything runs on donations & volunteer time+skills.
The servers & platforms I use regularly I should contribute to. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day11
Metrics don't matter here. Numbers don't matter. Mollowers aren't faked here, my voice isn't reduced by algorithms. What matters here is good interactions. Actually being social.
Having more followers does not make my posts more visible.
Following fewer people does not make my posts more visible.
Having lots of favs does not make my posts more visible.
It is not a system of social overlords broadcasting at serfs who don't get heard.
The features here are designed for the users, not for data harvesting or profit. They are deliberate choices to encourage people to treat each other better. There is rapid development and if I need a different feature, I should just look at another platform to access the Fediverse which will give it to me.
I can use many Fediverse websites/apps, and keep all my circle of people across them.
People matter, not metrics. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day10
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 from showing up in my feeds.
#Fediverse & it's different platforms+software have masses of clever tools, & different ways to access. You communicate with people all over the Fediverse, seamlessly.
So much more to explore, new projects, new apps: #PixelFed like Instagram but not trying to sell you stuff
#PeerTube like Youtube but not ads based
#Friendica like Facebook but not harvesting data
& many more to discover
#Calckey like a smooth & fun new Twitter replacement #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day9
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, I can block an entire server if I need to - but probably the mod heroes will be on it anyway.
They're volunteers, our mods and admins, and it's a tough job, let alone when it's unpaid. Be kind to them!
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day8
When uploading images try and describe the images in the alt text box, this is good for people using screenreaders, blind, partially sighted etc. Try to remember to include people.
Fediverse is MUCH better at this than most places, something to be proud of, lets keep it that way! #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day7
Emails have a subject line which I click to expand body of the message.
Fediverse has similar thing. A content wrapper [CW] button when posting that adds a title, then one clicks to expand post.
It takes very little extra time to do. Subject line doesn't prevent me sending email! It's good for long posts or stuff that people might not want to see.
Remember sometimes people just need a break from things going wrong in the world. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day6
I should write an introduction post to say hello and tell people a bit about myself.
Include the #introduction hashtag. Pin it to my profile.
Include lots of hashtags, so people can find me too. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day5
There are multiple feeds. You can customise them.
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow from any server for multiple social platforms.
⛴️Local=everyone on my ship (physical server).
🚢Federated=a step wider network, the people that locals are connected to or are searching.
#Fediverse is like a fleet. Different types & sizes of ships. Different sizes of instances/servers running a variety of social platforms. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day4
⭐ is the ❤️ button but it only tells the author you like their post, nobody else.
🔁Boost🔁 is what moves info around.
There is no algorithm, we choose and not some algorithm under corporate control. We choose by 🔁boosting🔁 posts and by using #hashtags.
If I put hashtags more at the bottom of a post it is kind to those using screen readers, partially sighted, blind etc. Fediverse has a good reputation for inclusion, we must keep it going.
Some platforms like Calckey even have a separate box below main post compose area, just for adding hashtags. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day3
👊I can put #hashTags in the search bar & find intersting things. Join in those conversations. Find more people to follow.
✊Locals on my server might answer questions eg "what's a good #hashtag to find historians with?" #Histodons Many are obvious eg #naturePhotography #ClimateChange
🤜I could pin hashtags as columns, or follow hashtags to put them in homefeed. I can create rules + keywords + hashtags + users based notifications called antennas on platforms like Calckey. There are many ways to find stuff or be notified on topics you specify.
🤛I can edit my posts (4.0+ Mastodon, Calckey, various other platforms). #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day2
👊I know bookmarks!
Bookmark a post via an icon or 3 dots flyout menu to return to something useful.
✊Follow liberally!
Morefollows has zero algorithm penalty here. Is no algorithm. More people I follow, more interesting my feeds get. There are good tools for management.
🤜I can click #hashtags!
#FediTips or #Newbies. I click hashtags to learn more stuff & find more people!
🤛I look at different feeds like local federated home etc.
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day 1
Where am I? Is this the Fediverse? What is the Mastodon?
..
👉 Click for Thread🧵
What I've learned about #Fediverse (#Mastodon #Calckey etc) condensed to help others.
3 helpful sites:
The Fediverse, a co-operation of social platforms. Imagine Facebook, Twttr, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, Medium but co-op to benefit the users not a few billionaires
https://jointhefediverse.net/
Calckey servers
https://calckey.org/
Where did your Twitter contacts go?
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
We may be getting more fun new friends as birdchan burns, what’s your best advice for new folks on the fedi? what do you know now that you wish you knew when you hopped on? #welcome
An introduction for our #server as we are accepting new #users!
#AllThingsTech is a #Mastodon #Community focused around #tech (any and all!). We #welcome #technologists, #coders, #engineers, #gadget lovers, self professed “#geeks” and anyone with an interest and love of tech. If that’s you - you’ve found your home in the #FediVerse!
Sign up @ https://allthingstech.social
#Home #Welcome #SpreadTheWord #TellYourFriends #NicePeople #Introduction
Oyé Oyé les Toulousain.e.s 👋
Ici et maintenant, montrons qu’une politique d’accueil et de solidarité est nécessaire et possible.
Au plaisir de vous y retrouver 😉
#RegularisezMaintenant #Welcome #sanspapiers #RESF31 #Toulouse
NOW PLAYING
I hope you will come join me as I do some #live #DJ #turntable mixing of various #EDM genres like #House #Rave #Techno music that has never been heard before!
All #instrumental, so it's great to have on in the background too!
https://www.twitch.tv/cosmality
You are also #welcome to #join in the #chat for a #shoutout , or to interact with the #stream and other #fans
Since it’s #WelcomeWednesday, I thought I’d share one of my original digital art designs with ya’ll. Tropical pink hibiscus, banana plant leaves and a sundry of green foliage are all staples in the sub-tropical climes of Central and South Florida.
#tropical #welcome #hibiscus #pink #flower #flowers #art #artists #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtCollector #artwork #BuyIntoArt #fediverse #FediGiftShop
Tropical Welcome is available here: https://hhphotography.pixels.com/featured/tropical-welcome-hh-photography-of-florida.html
Welcome to #AllThingsTech @DanW We are glad to have you here and look forward to interacting with and seeing what you have to offer as far as content.
To learn more about our instance, check out our blog post here ➡️ https://blog.allthingstech.social/what-is-allthingstech-social/
Make sure to checkout the rules ➡️ https://allthingstech.social/about/
Make sure to post and introduce yourself using the #introduction hashtag.
If you have any questions, please let myself or @kylewritescode know!
Welcome to #AllThingsTech @akalisingh We are glad to have you here and look forward to interacting with and seeing what you have to offer as far as content.
To learn more about our instance, check out our blog post here ➡️ https://blog.allthingstech.social/what-is-allthingstech-social/
Make sure to checkout the rules ➡️ https://allthingstech.social/about/
Make sure to post and introduce yourself using the #introduction hashtag.
If you have any questions, please let myself or @kylewritescode know!
Absolutely, quite the opposite.
Which is why I support the linked approach of #JoinTheFediverse by @stefan:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109960702367155717
#Decentralization
#Welcome
#NewToMastodon
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterDiaspora
Welcome to all our new users on the #DisabledSocial server! I hope I caught your introduction posts, but if I didn't, I apologize -- it's hard to keep up when I'm not feeling well.
So this is my welcome to you! Thanks for being here!
Let us mods know if you have any questions!
For information about our server, how to navigate mastodon, and information on accessibility on this platform, see our blog here: https://disabledsocial.github.io/Disabled-Social-Blog/
Found a really cool project 😎...
It is an attractive quick introduction to the Fediverse and it guides people to open Fediverse alternatives for the closed platforms that they are currently used to.
Give it a try : https://jointhefediverse.net/
A good primer for those getting ready to jump in!
What is #mastodon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE
#welcome #introduction #help #instance #socialmedia #community
To start, #welcome. A lot of posts like this have cropped up recently.
If you are having trouble finding people, a couple of recommendations.
To start, follow a bunch of hashtags and use them in your posts. They are no considered spam here, but a necessity for your posts to reach people.
Since your interested in meeting #lgbtq people, try following it and related hashtags, and then follow the people you like (not every post by someone will be in those hashtags)
Also checkout https://fediverse.info/. It is a directory of people by what topics they post in who've asked to be added.
#fediverse #mastodon #twittermigration #twitter #new #newusers #TheResistanceWillBeFederated
An introduction for our #server as we are now accepting #new #users!
https://techtoots.com is a #Mastodon #community focused on #tech (any vintage!). We #welcome #technologists, #coders, #engineers, #gadget lovers, self professed “#geeks” & anyone with an interest and love of tech. If you share the opinion that the the best #technologies are the ones that most resemble ‘#magic’- you’ve found your home in the #fediverse!
#home #welcome #spreadtheword #tellyourfriends #nicepeople #introduction
@ZDF Very well played, ZDF social team. Perfect first post.
#Welcome to the #Fediverse
I came to Mastadon in February because I couldn't take the overhaul/overlord at the bird site any longer. I've found Mastadon to be full of friendly, real people with lovely insights. Your feed is what you make it. Following people, following hashtags, adding hashtags to toots, and always using alt text for images are key to finding your people and following your interests. Thanks for having me and #welcome to newcomers! #mandala #MastoArt #KindnessMatters