DrewI thought I would try the #FollowBackFriday thing because I feel intrusive trying to cold start conversations with people. As needy as it sounds I am here to make friends and socialize. Looking for fellow #writers and #artists or #muscians I am enjoying mastodon and hope to communicate with other people with my interests some of which are #FrostGrave #Osr #Jrpgs #IndieGames #Scifi #Fantasy #Horror #IndustrialMetal #DeathMetal #Punk #Pynchon #FreakFolk #Gnosis #Zen #ArtFilm hope to talk soon
Kara Shallenberg@dharmadischarge as you can see if you look at your Notifications, I’ve boosted your post. Now everyone who follows me will see it. Some of them will respond personally, some will re-boost. And so it goes!
@Kayray thank you. and sorry for the delayed response. I am not getting notifications for some reason. probably just the servers being overwhelmed.
@dharmadischarge yeah, hang on tight, it will be bumpy around here for a few days. It was like this last week when the First Big Wave came over, but our admins will upgrade servers as necessary and it will be smooth again soon 😁
@dharmadischarge also, don’t be shy about favoriting and boosting. There’s no algorithm here, which means if you fav a bunch of posts about, um, pine trees one day, your feed won’t be full of pine trees the next. Fav’ing is like saying “I liked or identified with your post, good sir” and boosting is like “I think the people who follow me might enjoy reading this too”. Very low stakes.
@Kayray right on and thank you.
the way mastodon is structured is like the opposite of other sites of its kind (which is a blessing).
Just have to reprogram myself a little lol
@dharmadischarge in a couple days you’ll be helping the next wave of newbies ☺️
@Kayray I think tomorrow morning they are doubling the size of the servers so hopefully, I can talk more regularly after that