Oh my goodness... a LOT of new people... 😮 Welcome! 👋

If you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse, have a look at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written for a non-technical audience, and hopefully answers most beginners' questions.

If you're looking for accounts to follow, there are lots of ways to do it summarised here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

If you have any problems, ask me and I'll try to help!

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

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

...also:

-You only need to sign up on one server. The servers communicate to form a single network. People from different servers can follow and interact with each other.

-Don't sign up on mastodon.social, it's way too overloaded. You will have a nicer experience on a different server. You can find well-run reliable servers at https://joinmastodon.org/servers and https://fedi.garden

-You can always move and keep your followers/follows if you ever change your mind about being on a particular server

Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.

@feditips Moving from one instance to another one is a flawless process [particularly when following your tips, many thanks for the guide], BUT there's no way that I know of to export/import hashtags when migrating & that's a real drawback. It's such a PITA to find a way to manually transfer your hashtags.

@captainb

Yeah, that ought to be very fixable too as tag lists don't take up much room. Hopefully it will be in a future update.