Mastodawn

Hi everyone!

After a few years break from conventional social media, here to see if I enjoy this more.

I am a PhD student in cosmology. When not at my desk you can probably find me in the local climbing gym, cooking some vegan food, reading, playing boardgames or spending time outside doing more climbing, hiking, bike packing.

Might use this account for talking about science, hobbies or both.

Originally from Germany currently living in Denmark.

#introduction

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Alexander Oestreicher 12h ago

I did not expect to come back from boardgame night to this! Over a hundred people interacting with this, was honestly expecting this post to go unnoticed! Thank you all so much, what an incredible welcome!

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✝️Aesthetic Femboy 20h ago

@alex_oe howdy ho and welcome

be sure to use and follow hashtags to find your tribe and have your posts be discovered by other users. Enjoy the fediverse

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Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱20h ago

@alex_oe Welcome to Mastodon :) You'll likely find a big cycing community and plenty of vegans around here! Best of luck with the PhD, very curious to learn more about both cosmology and about the hobbies!

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ᗪavid John. דָּוִד יוֹחָנָן 19h ago

@alex_oe

Welcome to the last social media you will ever need. Welcome to Mastodon!

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Cecilia | MeraOrd 19h ago

@alex_oe Hello Alexander! The beaches of Denmark are beautiful.

/Cecilia from Sweden

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Arratoon 18h ago

@alex_oe @noodlemaz Welcome!

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BlackMinaFz8 18h ago

@alex_oe Hi Alex, welcome to mastodon! Hope you'll land here nicely, I think I have :) Looking forward to your shares.

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Katsura003 18h ago

@alex_oe welcome! I'm new here too and i swear it's like a breath of fresh air for now

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Nigel 17h ago

@alex_oe have fun, I like it here, about 3 years now and have long ago dumped the FB and X etc.

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Florine 17h ago

@alex_oe welcome! You can follow both people and hashtags here, and you'll find your community soon enough.

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Sublime Overload 17h ago

@alex_oe Interested in stealing science and hearing about hobbies.

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Pino Carafa 16h ago

@alex_oe Greetings from Ireland.

A good start would be to follow @FediTips

First good tip: follow people you like. Check out what they boost. Follow the accounts you like from what they boost. Repeat.

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T. J. Bombadil 16h ago

@alex_oe Welcome from another (former) cosmologist, (former) climber, hiker, backpacker, etc. This is a good place.

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The Crafty Miss 16h ago

@alex_oe Welcome! How nice to see your happy smile on what looks like a windy but beautiful day

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zrb 16h ago

@alex_oe hey welcome, you might have already realized this but in case you didn't, you need to follow people in order to see anything on your timeline! And since lots of people are scattered across many different servers, it might be difficult to expand your bubble past a certain point naturally

what I've started doing is occasionally picking a server at random from https://joinmastodon.org/servers and scrolling through to find interesting accounts to follow

Servers

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

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AskPippa🇨🇦15h ago

@zrb @alex_oe I did the same thing. Also, I looked who interesting people were following and followed some of those accounts.

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ClareBear 💚

15h ago

@alex_oe Kia Ora from Aotearoa New Zealand!🇳🇿

@alex_oe
Welcome.

@alex_oe Welcome!
A helpful account to follow is @FediTips which offers lots of tips on how to use this platform.
- You can follow hashtags to increase the likelihood of posts with topic of interest showing up in your feed.
- You get 3 sets of feeds. Home: the accounts you follow. Trending: random popular posts from various instances. Live Feeds: Posts from accounts on the instance you belong to.
The system is a bit clunky between instances, but ask people for help -- someone will step up with advice.

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