Hey guys!!
Sure as shit haven’t figured this baby out yet, but here I am lol!!
I don’t even know how to gif or if I can swear. 😂
@Jojofromjerz Haven't figured it out either but I've followed you.
@Jojofromjerz I literally followed you here (from the angry bird) and made an account. So hope it all works out. Lol.
@kurtremete @Jojofromjerz that is what I did! LOL
Now, I'm lost!
@0forThot @Jojofromjerz I think it’s pretty similar to Twitter here. With a lot less people I guess. I don’t know sometimes it’s good to look at your feed and not see anything, especially anything negative. Refreshing in a way :)
@kurtremete @0forThot @Jojofromjerz it's actually very different than Twitter. It is slower, as in more thoughtful, less snark, less rapidfire comebacks, almost nonexistent negativity. The numbers game means nothing. It's the perfect counterpoint/antidote to what Twitter had become. Enjoy!
@kurtremete @Jojofromjerz you can actually follow her from any account (server) 🍀
@Jojofromjerz
You gif by uploading your gif or simply pasting it in the post.
As to whether you can swear, that's up to the admins in your particular neck of the woods (mastodon server). Though, I can safely assume that you can, although some folk would appreciate some advance warning of the potty-mouth avalanche using the odd CW content warning which doubles as a subject line for posts.
Otherwise, it's all the same.

@metrogn0me_gr @Jojofromjerz

paste to a post.. servers are overwhelmed and uploaded takes up valuable space and bandwidth.. pre the server owners...

@tdwllms1 @Jojofromjerz

Might be a server/instance/neck of the woods thing.
I'm on mastodon.coffee and haven't experienced any of that.

@metrogn0me_gr @tdwllms1 @Jojofromjerz Coffee? How do you find these other servers? I'm confused.
@Shari2112 @tdwllms1 @Jojofromjerz
For me, it was a case that the ".social" was overloading/not accepting people and then it was a case of "try one of those" and I picked one at random.
That was before I became familiar with the peculiarities of each server.
It's fine here and have no reason to move to anywhere else...
@Jojofromjerz
I haven’t figured it out either. Slow going for sure!
@Jojofromjerz - I don't see an option to "like" or "heart" posts. Lazy person like me gonna have to learn to reply. EDITED - It's the Star!! Thank you.
@nitasweeney @Jojofromjerz the Star is a "like", but on Mastodon , the only way to "boost" a toot is with the reblogging (retweet) button. On purpose there is almost no algorithmic boosting on Mastodon
@Jojofromjerz Happy to see you on here!
@Jojofromjerz
Hi Jo. Glad to see you here! I’m about 5 mins older on Mastodon than you 😂
Not sure how any of this works yet, but your a welcome sight.
@Jojofromjerz let me know if you figure it out. I'm sure someone knows better, but all I could figure was using Tenor, downloading an MP4 and using the paper clip to attach. @feditips how to do Gifs on Mastodon ?
@Jojofromjerz I think swearing is always acceptable and really-do you want to be where it isn't?? Great release words
@Jojofromjerz I don't understand how this whole thing works. Guess we'll all learn together.

@TurdFerguson @Jojofromjerz Turd Ferguson...it's a funny name...

It's making more sense the longer I use it. Gradually I am finding the people I enjoyed following on Twitter, so my "home" feed is becoming birdsite-like.

@Jojofromjerz Glad you're over here on your OWN social media site.

Please post here as well as on Twitter.

@Jojofromjerz I followed you when you said this is where you will go. I set up my account during the week. Still not sure how it works. 💙
@Jojofromjerz content warnings don’t say you can’t swear. So I’d take that as a positive!
@Jojofromjerz saw you mention Mastodon on Twitter, so here I am figuring it out as well!
@Jojofromjerz
Yep - same here! Glad I found you!
@Jojofromjerz totally clueless as well.
@Jojofromjerz slowly getting my Twitter favs on this site
@Jojofromjerz
i never had a twitter account but thought i would try this out. opensource is always hard.
@Jojofromjerz it gets easier the more you use it. Will be glad to get all of the accts I follow over on this platform.
@Jojofromjerz Hi Jo!!! I think you can swear! :)
@Jojofromjerz We can all learn together! I’m excited to see where it leads us!

@Jojofromjerz

Welcome! Swearing fits the culture here a lot less than on the bird site.

@Jojofromjerz Hey same here, still on Twitter but looks good here..

@Jojofromjerz thank s is a great resource for getting oriented here https://fedi.tips/

And you can ask @feditips for help.

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse