ChiefGyk3DFor those new here from #twitter to #mastodon may I suggest @FediFollows as well as @feditips. If you’re interested in running your own server I personally use @mastohost for managing my service, simple to setup and pay them, been using them for months and it’s cheaper than Twitter blue for many individuals, but inexpensively can scale if you become more popular as I have been. Enjoy your time tooting posts away #twittermigration #welcome
In addition to that advice to people new from #Twitter here on #mastodon if you need to replicate news feeds you can use https://press.coop for things like @Reuters and @CNN and @cnnbrk just like on Twitter but note these are not official accounts but they are using official posts from the Twitter accounts to recreate the experience. You'll find many volunteers have made great bots for all sorts of things. I even made a #twitch bot you can find in my github to post here. #twittermigration
Another tip for those new to #Mastodon and the #fediverse from the #twittermigration and #twitterexodus if you want to find people to follow of different interests the community trunk is a great resource to find people and announce you are there. I'm in the technology section and that's where many find me #welcome #twitter
I'll try to keep adding to this thread more tips
https://communitywiki.org/trunk
I'll try to keep adding to this thread more tips
https://communitywiki.org/trunk
Another #mastodon tip for those fleeing from #twitter. If you’re looking for other servers to possibly join or even connect with, you can use https://fediverse.observer/ to find many different #fediverse servers not just Mastodon, it can even geographically map all the servers for you too. You don’t have to stay on your server you can always migrate your profile and following. #twitterexodus #twittermigration #welcome
Another good trick that not many know about is to camp a web browser tab (don't know about no apps) on
[instance_name]/public/local/
This lets you watch the stream of public Local posts and get a sense of what that instance is all about
I have bookmarks for almost 30 /public/local/ pages that I cruise by every day
For one:
journa.host/public/local
H/T: @FinchHaven
#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration #twitterexodus #welcome #fediverse #feditips
Another tip for new #mastodon users from #twitter there are three main content feeds to be aware:
Following Feed: Those are only posts from who you’ve followed
Local Feed: Those are only posts from people on the server you have joined
Federated Feed: Those are all the posts the server you have joined can see from all the servers that server is federated with
#fediverse is a #decentralized and federated space. It’s not monolithic so you have to plant seeds. #twitterexodus #twittermigration
Anlther tip for those new to #Mastodon and the #fediverse but are also a #streamer on #twitch. You may notice you'll need new tools to announce when you are live automatically. I developed a self hosted Twitch livestream poster for Mastodon. I designed it to run on a @Raspberry_Pi but it can run on any Mac, windows, or Linux box with python. My project is called "Twitch and Toot." https://github.com/ChiefGyk3D/twitch-and-toot #twitter #twitterexodus #twittermigration #gaming #streaming #opensource #python
#Mastodon is more like a garden than a supermarket. There is no algorithm or points system feeding you a constant stream of content. You have to gradually cultivate a feed by discovering and following individuals and hashtags, pruning what you don't want, and engaging in one-on-one conversions.
Free Mastodon tip: you can follow a big general hashtag like #art, then mute styles you are not interested in, like #️⃣furry, to fine-tune your feed.
H/T Rabbi Nathan #twitter #twittermigration #fediverse
Dr.Implausible@chiefgyk3d Pretty good analogy with the cultivation. My feed started out as "locally boring", and a little cultivation has started to make it less so.
I'm still missing the Firehose, so I'm looking for a way to connect that and turn that on.
I still desire more "unknown unknowns"...
@drimplausible you’re gonna want to venture into your own server and explore relays then especially since many servers are discussing defederating from mastodon.social with meta coming in (not that I agree with it) because then you can explore it and cultivate it entirely as you want and set up relays to connect to more servers. My federated feed is absolutely fascinating. You’re more than welcome to hop over here buddy if you want a taste of my slice of the fediverse
@drimplausible if you do want to make your own server it’s relatively easy and inexpensive with @mastohost it’s only a few dollars on the low end
@chiefgyk3d @mastohost Ah, very cool.Thank you. I started a droplet over on digital ocean the other week, but got sidetracked with some video editing. Looking to have something spun up in the next week or so.
@drimplausible @mastohost just make sure you have plenty of power because believe it or not my mastodon server is a powerful box for when I get popular posts