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1. get a mastodon.social account 2. start following people 3. if you notice that a lot of people you are following are on a particular server, consider gettin
by egypturnash 3y ago
1. get a mastodon.social account
2. start following people
3. if you notice that a lot of people you are following are on a particular server, consider getting an account there and using the account migration tools to move all your current followers over there
4. alternatively, set up your own server, maybe just for you, maybe for some of your friends and/or family, with your own set of rules and a manifesto that is perfectly sensible and not weird at all because it is yours.
- timbit42 3y agoMore importantly, follow hashtags. This is the real power of Mastodon.
- davemp 3y agoSo I'd basically have to hope posts from people I'm interested in filter their way onto the server I start on and sort of crawl around until I find communities I'd actually want to participate in? How does the cross pollination between servers work? I haven't seen a good description on it besides that you can DM people across servers. The content is also structured in a twitter microblog + replies style. So I'm seeing basically private forums of old, but twitter format and some weird soft discovery thing. Overall I like the idea of federation, but mastadon seems half baked. I signed up and I'll get it a try for a week or so though.