Jorge Caballero, MDHey you. Yeah, you. We're glad you're here. Just wanted to say that
My tip for newly-arrived #Twitter expats: ignore the accounts whose entire brand is doling out advice about the Fediverse. This place really isn't as difficult to navigate as those folks would have you believe.
If all you want is a place to exchange ideas, follow experts, and get breaking news, then all you need to know is how to log in/out of your Mastodon account and where the "Follow" button is. If that's all you want, this place really is just like any other online social network.
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jz.tuskI'd also add "Learn how to block. And don't be shy about using it, or you'll find that 40% of your energy is wasted on 0.01% of the people here."
Dave Neary@DataDrivenMD Ironically, that looks like advice about the Fediverse 😁
Jenny Blocks MAGA 🌻🇺🇦 ☮️🟦🟧@DataDrivenMD and to stay away from propaganda
Lucifer ☄️@DataDrivenMD This is mostly good advice, but there are little differences that are easy to not notice- like that you can follow hashtags!
Also the semantic differences between boosting and favoriting are meaningful- there isn't an algorithm to feed, so boosting just repeats the boosted content to your followers (and favoriting signals to the author of the content that you like it)
Also the semantic differences between boosting and favoriting are meaningful- there isn't an algorithm to feed, so boosting just repeats the boosted content to your followers (and favoriting signals to the author of the content that you like it)
Jaime HerazoI'd suggest that at least at the beginning you *do* follow those (Feditips, FediFollows and a couple more), then when you're comfortable in a few days you unfollow them. Things are different enough from commercial social media that some things will not be obvious at first, for example been seeing a lot of people during the whole weekend realize you can follow hashtags here and suggesting some. But yeah, it's training wheels to be shed once you don't need them.