For your first day on Mastodon, just a few humbly suggested steps! Welcome to the party!
1) Consider if you're on the server for you, your hobbies, and your moderation desires. You can always migrate your account, later. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
2) Make a profile! These can be longer than Twitter ones - and you can format them with line breaks, italics (using asterix), and loads of emoji if your server supports markup. Check the emoji on your server, here! https://emojos.in/
3) If you liked who you followed on Twitter, use https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ and/or https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ to create a csv of all the people you followed there to upload into Mastodon, using the web menu option Preferences > Import. Now you are following the same folks!
4) Using https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/, you can also export your Twitter blocklist, and import it using the same function in Mastodon.
5) Create an introduction post! Use lots of hashtags to help people find you and your interests, as there's no algorithm or string search function here. Make sure to add the hashtag introduction!
6) Get used to using hashtags in your posts regularly, so that people can find them manually or using the hashtag following function, or the rss feed function.
7) Use CWs liberally, to help people decide what to see. Follow your server's guidelines, but definitely CW those movie spoilers!
8) Use alt text in your images whenever possible, to help people with screen readers enjoy it here, too!
9) Enjoy your new community, and have a lot of fun!
Occasionally I see people complain about seeing porn on the federated timeline, and like, that's because you are literally consuming a feed of ALL the content across all the network of instances that your instance is connected to.
It's kinda like complaining about porn-like content in the Twitter firehouse, Instagram search page, or google image search with safe mode off.
The federated timeline is a big fat firehose of data blasting you straight in the face, of course you're gonna see shit
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Of course, that's in addition to a ton of other x-rated content and chat that you'll get immediate access to for just $10/month.
See yall there 🤭😊😇
*I don't really have a manager, just a part of my brain that sometimes reminds me I'm supposed to be making money doing this as well as having fun!
NV 1 - Reflection ; Nude, boobs, no genital
Upside-down with @Myst
When the street comes into the bedroom
The federated time line is starting to really come to life! If your feed feels a bit empty check out some people to follow or posts to share.
Twitter's on fire. Safety!