People do not scale.
Culture does not scale.
Relationships do not scale.

*Systems* scale.

You cannot engineer your way around humans, please stop trying

If you want to see Mastodon at its best, strongly recommend these options:

 Android - Use apps Tusky or Fedilab

  iPhone/iPad - Use apps Metatext or Toot!

💻 Computers - Log in through your server's website

Mastodon was designed for websites and third party apps. These are *still* the best ways to use Mastodon!

(Official app exists because new people were only looking for an official app in app stores, and giving up when they didn't find one. You don't need to use it!)

Important Mastodon Newbie Info 🐘:

There are no ads here,
and this is not a corporation.
This is a Federation  ​

The person(s) taking care of everything needed for you to have an account here is likely doing it solely out of generosity for the community. This even costs THEM money. Not to mention the enormous cost in time!

Support your instance’s administration(s) every way you can. This is important 💚

HOW TO ❓

You can find who does this for you by looking up the About page for your server/instance.

You usually can find this page by adding “/about” after your instance’s name in a browser. Your instance name is what is after your handle name, after the second “@“ (for example, mine is: infosec.exchange/about).

👉 Help financially if you can: Many administrator(s) will have a page setup for donations. If not, you can ask them   

👉 Offer your time to help if you can: Ask if they need support with moderation and such 💪

👉 Do not use Report as a joke. Only Report when necessary 😌

👉 BE KIND! Cheers them up! Say thanks! They are doing this for you 💚