Gregory's ServerWIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/
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@jhpot Nicely done! It’s more like hanging out at a pub over beers than it is walking around a shopping mall trying to have a conversation. @segdeha That is a great way of putting it! Except the beer is free as in freedom (attempt at open source joke) @3fecta Not sure I know enough about Linux to get this. Is that because Red Hat was the commercialized version? @jhpot Ty for this. Still can't get the self-verify link to work tho @jhpot thanks. Is there some final action in my profile after I have the link on my web site. #threewayhandshake @securityskeptic If you already have a link in your header or anchor in your body with the rel attribute set to "me" and the href attribute set to your Mastodon profile's URL, you should be able to edit your profile, change nothing, and then Save for it to update.  @jhpot 🧵 (1/87) @jhpot @mykd That is precisely the kind of guide I wanted to write! Something that gets across what makes this difference but in a way that just about anyone would be able to follow. @jhpot This is a superb introduction! Wish this existed for my last tweet, on how to onboard with Mastodon :) (my username here, but on 🐦 ) @jhpot @JustAnotherJay Man I wish I could include everything in one guide but that would quickly become a book. I hope I can do various follow-up articles with tips like this. @jhpot Nice article :) I will definitely share this with my friends when they ask about #Mastodon "For example, if I were sharing a nude picture of myself I could write the content warning “nude pasty white dude.” Anyone who wants to see me, for some reason, can click to do so, but everyone else is spared." 😂 This was fun. @kam08 I'm glad you found that funny! I always try to lighten the mood. I sincerely hope the piece is useful for people. @jhpot just wanted to let you know I enjoyed reading this article. I hope it will reach a wide audience including people who may not have realized that Mastodon is something different and wouldn’t have otherwise tried it. @jhpot Terrific article! Very helpful for a newbie like me - getting used to the culture here is interesting, but pleasant. How timely for a Mastodon newbie like myself to see this as the first post! Will be my morning read 📖 @jhpot  @jhpot Thank you for the informative article. I not only learned more about how to best use Mastodon, but I learned what rickrolling was. Hey, what can I say, I know a lot about pop culture but I am fast approaching being 80. 😆 :ablobcatattentionreverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling @jhpot thank you for this! I’m a newbie here and it’s giving me such quirky early internet nostalgia - I forgot how fun and odd twitter was early on, and I’m reconnecting with that spirit here, it’s beautiful @jhpot i thought this was a very well written article. I do wish to say that not all crypto is a scam though. A lot of us really believe in what we are doing and want to help people from anywhere be able to interact with the financial system without all the onerous requirements todays big finance requires. We want to do to finance what mastodon is doing to social media. @jhpot Thank you very much for this article! It is super well written and I step by step learn a bit more on the specialties that make this social platform and this community. A very good introductory point for newcomers!  @jhpot Great write-up! One nit pick: "the Federated tab shows you every single post published in the entire Fediverse" — This isn't quite accurate. The Federated timeline shows every post *your instance* is aware of. This is primarily everybody followed by everyone on your instance, but it can also include users they've specifically searched for. Some instances employ tools to catch more to bring into this timeline, but that's not generally the norm. @keithjgrant Man, I wish I could include this degree of nuance in an article but I was so much longer than most as it is. Maybe if I write a book later I can get to that level of granularity... @jhpot it's a good read, but I can't help to think that after reading this, people would still think that Mastodon is Fediverse and Fediverse is Mastodon. For example, the Retweet With Comment aka QT isn't available on Mastodon by design, but it is available in Misskey and some others also by design. By reading the article alone, peope would think that Mastodon's design is applicable across Fediverse.  @jhpot - well done Justin! It's a long read and I'm on my way out for a round of golf so I'll finish on my return. Meanwhile, I'm wondering why "toots"? It sounds too much like we're farting or droppin' bisquits. And worse like we're mimicking the bluebird and that's even weaker I think. How about "fossils"? They go with the mastodon idea and they are historical tidbits of our past. Just wandering and wondering. @cafeprojections The latest updates drop the word "toots" entirely! My server says "Publish!" now. |
@jhpot Really great article! I like the focus on community on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse.