✨ Pepper Raccoon ✨I hope Mastodon is ok with artists trying to make a living from the beautiful work they enhance your feed with on this platform. So many of us relied almost entirely on Twitter to survive bc it was the only platform that yielded us an engaged, friendly audience. There is no other place for us, not really.
Crafty Gardener NZ@pepperraccoon there are instances that let you do stuff like this. I have a work account for the instance handmade.social and im allowed to post links to my felt store there.
@craftygardennz yeah, it seems like the Art instance I’m in is fairly flexible as long as you keep it reasonable. My problem is that marketing to other people who do the same thing I do isn’t actually what I need or want.
@pepperraccoon that’s where hashtags come into play as they are the only things searchable and aren’t instance specific.
@craftygardennz yeah, but honestly who regularly searches hashtags? 😂
Daniel@pepperraccoon @craftygardennz real talk I do think Mastodon is not a great platform for professional creatives to promote their work - can’t pay for an ad, reduced virality etc. … that said the Mastodon of today is different from two weeks ago so 🤷♂️
@dznz @craftygardennz I wouldn’t pay to promote and never went viral on Twitter, yet I still did brilliantly. It’s not really about that for us.
@pepperraccoon I do now, it's the only way to find people with interests like mine.
@craftygardennz yeah, I might have to get on that!
Dr. Curiosity 💻🔬@pepperraccoon @craftygardennz
If it helps, you can follow and in some clints pin hashtags to a column, so that you can set up a stream for a topic you're interested in.
If it helps, you can follow and in some clints pin hashtags to a column, so that you can set up a stream for a topic you're interested in.
@pepperraccoon @craftygardennz
A bit more on the multi-column mode for desktop viewing over here:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105249858756566385
A bit more on the multi-column mode for desktop viewing over here:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105249858756566385
Fedi.Tips (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images The desktop version of Mastodon has two different interfaces: a single column Twitter-style one, and a multicolumn Tweetdeck-style one. ✅ To switch between Mastodon's desktop interfaces, go to Preferences > Appearance > Enable Advanced Web Interface. Selecting it activates multicolumn, unselecting it activates single column. Multicolumn lets you add lots of additional columns, which may be handy for desktops on very wide monitors. #FediTips #MastoTips #Mastodon #Interface #UI #Appearance