Hello Mastodon Newcomers 🐘✨!

It seems there's a fresh wave of people joining or coming back to Mastodon this week ​🌊​​ 

If you feel a little lost,
I wrote this external guide that might help you, or that you can share with friends: https://controlaltdelete.technology/articles/the-mastodons-guide-to-the-fediverse.html

On this post, you will find links to each category of the guide separately: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109995537816857661

On this post, you will find a list of short Mastodon post-guides: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109323504324459171

For Fediverse tips all year long, you should follow the excellent @FediTips!

Welcome! ​✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse

Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.

Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.

This seems like incredibly lazy reporting. Yes, there was a flood of new signups, and not all of them became regular users. But look at the growth of actual usage and posts of the Fediverse, and it continues to go up.

I've seen a few articles with this framing lately, and it's just so lazily misleading.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump/