joehumphrey🏴☠️One thing about me on Mastodon that I'm learning is that I boost a lot. People boost my stuff, and I appreciate it so much, so when I see someone promoting something, I like to boost it. I think of it as less transactional and more like contributing to a massive pool of creative support that I benefit from
Saputo
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Pixel Artist, Game Dev, CEO & Founder of Oblitus Games LLC.
TedThe Official Applications are great if you're on a huge instance, but it only prominently features your Home feed, the one you directly curate.
The Local feed is just the community on your instance, and can be a lovely thing to interact with! In the Official applications, this is hididen under the Search icon, with the tab Community.
Meanwhile, the Federated feed is a combination of ALL the public Local feeds from every instance yours is connected with! It's a firehose, but a wonderful way to discover new people! The Official applications do not surface the Federated feed at all.
Especially if you're newer to the Fediverse, or on a smaller instance, I strongly recommend checking out some of the third party applications, such as MetaText or Toot! for iOS, or Tusky for Android, or tooot for either, to be able to experience all this platform has to offer!
Have friends lookiing to join an instance with a connection to #gamedev or #gaming? Have them take a peekl at the Gamedev & Gaming Mastodon Webring!
https://tinyurl.com/mastodon-gamedev-list
On (or running!) a gamedev or gaming related instance and don't see yours on there? Get your admin in touch with me to get added!
FediTips has moved!The latest Mastodon update lets you follow hashtags. When you follow, posts with a tag appear in your timeline automatically.
Try following #Gardening to make posts about gardening appear in your timeline.
This can be REALLY useful for discovering interesting accounts.
To follow a hashtag:
1. Log in through your server's website
2. Search for hashtag
3. Click it to see its results
4. Click on 👤+ icon in top right (click again to unfollow)
Posts from followed tags are visible in the apps too.
Working on game development and design docs without a PC oh the age of powerful phones is amazing never would of seen this coming as a kid.
Dave Troy 
A few recommendations for life on Mastodon:
1) Follow anyone you think looks potentially interesting; you can always unfollow later, and they may lead you to new people via boosted posts.
2) Boost posts you think are worthy, so others can discover new content.
3) Don't obsess on replicating your Twitter follows on Mastodon; let it be its own experience, and grow it organically. Obvs follow anyone you miss from Twitter, but this isn't a 1:1 replacement; have fun, follow your instincts.
Justin PotWIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽I’m boldly going where I haven’t gone before, which is right here at this site. Apparently this is a “toot.” I would appreciate a follow!