New followers that are flooding in:

Hi!

There's hundreds of you. Many have elephant avatars, which is like an egg over on ​. Fill out your profiles. Say something about yourself. You have four personal data fields. Stick some pronouns in one, your web site in another, a couple other things you think are important in the others.

Write a bit about yourself in your profile. Things that interest you, things you love, things you abhor.

Look at your local timeline. Follow some folks there.

Write a post about yourself. Use the hashtag # introduction (space added so this doesn't show up in search). Talk about yourself, and what you want folks to know. People use that to find folks in their posse.

Search that hashtag to find other new folks.

Interact. Reply to other folks' toots.

Find your posse, ride out together. Overthrow the new world order.

Once you've done all that, feel free to check out my books. 

@mwlucas
Do not follow Michael. He's terrible!

[Subtext: Follow Michael. He's excellent.]

@mwlucas thanks for the reminder about the Personal Data Fields. Based on your suggestions I filled it out in less than 10 seconds!
@mwlucas thank you for the useful tips
@mwlucas but the elephant is my true self
@alexandria @mwlucas but how can that elephant be your true self in a world with this elephant?
@mwlucas great advice. Thanks!
I think I have to change my cover/banner on my Mac? Can’t seem to be able to do that on my iPhone. Could be an “oh duh” thing, too.
@Lynda @mwlucas same problem - tips on changing the #banner appreciated

@Lynda Yes, your banner can be adjusted in the Edit Profile section. I'm not sure whether that's something you can do from a phone interface or app, but it definitely is there on the desktop / web interface.

Welcome!

@mwlucas thank you for helping out!
@mwlucas thanks for the little guide, very helpful.
@mwlucas I'm new and not really the posse type. I'm here from twitter. Thanks for the info.
@mwlucas thank you, i’m looking forward to meeting people on here and seeing how the platform develops over time :)
@mwlucas I have tried to fix my avatar but apparently my photo is the wrong size or something.
@mwlucas thanks for Just joined and understand the feeling of bewilderment many articles mention.
@mwlucas thanks for the helpful advice!
@mwlucas DO IT QUICK I WANNA TALK TO YA ALL <3
@mwlucas You lost me a personal data fields. I looked & looked at my profile page & didn’t see anything like that. 🤷🏻‍♀️
@mwlucas good pointers - thanks! Good thing to have us newcomers pay attention to best practice 👍
@mwlucas is there a Google translate feature like on Twitter (doesn’t seem to be)? I want to be able to follow what’s coming out of China