S.Tori14h ago
Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
Show threadPinky13h ago
@Torithom Welcome! Considering you're in NZ, you might enjoy reading posts from
@georgepenney
Show threadS.Tori
@pinky I will! I've seen some of those posts and NZ isn't actually this cute quaint utopia (especially as someone who has never lived in a small town). But I appreciate the musings.
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Show threadMWT10h ago

@Torithom @pinky
I enjoy the George Penney posts because they're about the cute quaint utopia town I live in. :D It's not really cute, quaint, nor utopia here, but still fun to see from their eyes.

Also, welcome to Mastodon. There's quite a few of us in New Zealand here, especially on the mastodon.nz and cloudisland.nz servers.

Show threadS.Tori10h ago
@mwt excuse my ignorance, but I joined the Fediverse through the Forkiverse, which was a social experiment made on the Hard Fork podcast. They created it with vibe coding as a small project so I don't even know how it's still working now it's so big. Is that what you call the server, and there's another one for NZ?
Show threadMWT9h ago

@Torithom
The Forkiverse is one of many points-of-entry that together make up the Fediverse. The Fediverse is basically a whole bunch of places that can all talk to each other, and they don't even all look the same (some are like blogs, some are like former-Twitter, some are like Instagram, there's also Youtube-like places, etc.).

Mastodon is a Twitter-like setup, and there are at least a couple well-populated Mastodon servers specific to New Zealand (Mastodon.nz is the one I'm on, and the other I know of is cloudisland.nz).