JustinHanaganAn EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)
Did somebody tell you it's too confusing? #tech
https://www.staygrounded.online/p/an-extremely-simple-guide-to-mastodon
WalopExcept you need to choose an instance, can not find your frienda because they chose another one and after a few weeks you find out the admin of your instance is quitting if you didn’t choose mastodon.social
DestragrasI get that searching can be a bit finicky sometimes but doesn't typing in a full username of a user you want to search for usually do the job?
That part about shutting down is something that https://joinmastodon.org/covenant tries to help with, where advance notice should be given and multiple people should have access to administrative actions. At least if the server has to shut down the users are given enough time to look at another server.
OtterThis is probably one of the best intro guides I’ve seen. A lot of them get bogged down into details that aren’t important, and I’ve been guilty of that myself with some friends.
This is short, sweet, and has extra reading only if people want it.
(This is the one I’m looking at btw: staygrounded.online/…/a-simple-guide-to-mastodon-…)
I’d also crosspost this to a few other communities if you can :) The two fediverse communities ( [email protected] [email protected] ), maybe the mastodon one, and various intro ones as well
Thank you! I put a lot of effort into it.
To cross-post on Lemmy/kbin you just... make the new post right?
Yea it’s super clear, I’ll be sending it to friends :)
For crossposting, if you’re using desktop then there should be a little button (looks like the copy button) which helps you cross post.
I prefer to just open each community and copy paste in the contents. The above method is only if you really care about having a little “crossposted to…” text on the post. Depending on the app or frontend, people might not even see that.
I did that, thanks. And the “crossposted to…” showed up. Pretty cool!