Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet.
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@MrAndrewD I'm also fairly involved in cycling advocacy haha! I write letters and share them in the communities I am a part of for input and ideas. It's the extent of the energy I have to contribute to collective action at times but yes, 'you vs the world' is problematic due to the powers that be thriving of us working in silos. I'm also involved in union work as of recently to try and become more collectively strategic in my complaint letter hobby
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@Torithom The Fediverse has a few customs like alt text for pictures and introductions; however, I don't know if they're exclusive to this network. Some people won't interact with you if you omit those two things. I think alternate descriptions for vision-impaired users are valid. Introductions, I will not comply.
@desertsquare fair enough. Yes I shall try to get better at alt text. Not sure if I've worked it out thus far but will. Totally on board with that norm. Your question made me think about all the how to videos about using social media to promote music which stresses me out as a musician, but asking who's norms they are is important I think, especially when alt text isn't always a consideration. I think you're right that we need to challenge the norm, double empathy problem and all that.
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@desertsquare fair enough. Yes I shall try to get better at alt text. Not sure if I've worked it out thus far but will. Totally on board with that norm. Your question made me think about all the how to videos about using social media to promote music which stresses me out as a musician, but asking who's norms they are is important I think, especially when alt text isn't always a consideration. I think you're right that we need to challenge the norm, double empathy problem and all that.
@Torithom Welcome aboard.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom Hello, and welcome.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom Howdy and welcome
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom
Nice to meet you…welcome to the Fedi! -
Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom@theforkiverse.com @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
We're always happy to answer polite questions, and @FediTips is a great resource for starting out
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
Welcome
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@MrAndrewD also are you able to share that video? I probably need to see it to keep my cycling rage in check
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@pinky I will! I've seen some of those posts and NZ isn't actually this cute quaint utopia (especially as someone who has never lived in a small town). But I appreciate the musings.
@Torithom @pinky
I enjoy the George Penney posts because they're about the cute quaint utopia town I live in.
It's not really cute, quaint, nor utopia here, but still fun to see from their eyes. Also, welcome to Mastodon. There's quite a few of us in New Zealand here, especially on the mastodon.nz and cloudisland.nz servers.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom Welcome! Fedizens are famous for giving gentle (or not so gentle) advice about how-it-all-is-supposed-to-work. Any advice that doesn’t work for you is wrong
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@Torithom @pinky
I enjoy the George Penney posts because they're about the cute quaint utopia town I live in. It's not really cute, quaint, nor utopia here, but still fun to see from their eyes. Also, welcome to Mastodon. There's quite a few of us in New Zealand here, especially on the mastodon.nz and cloudisland.nz servers.
@mwt excuse my ignorance, but I joined the Fediverse through the Forkiverse, which was a social experiment made on the Hard Fork podcast. They created it with vibe coding as a small project so I don't even know how it's still working now it's so big. Is that what you call the server, and there's another one for NZ?
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@mwt excuse my ignorance, but I joined the Fediverse through the Forkiverse, which was a social experiment made on the Hard Fork podcast. They created it with vibe coding as a small project so I don't even know how it's still working now it's so big. Is that what you call the server, and there's another one for NZ?
@Torithom
The Forkiverse is one of many points-of-entry that together make up the Fediverse. The Fediverse is basically a whole bunch of places that can all talk to each other, and they don't even all look the same (some are like blogs, some are like former-Twitter, some are like Instagram, there's also Youtube-like places, etc.).Mastodon is a Twitter-like setup, and there are at least a couple well-populated Mastodon servers specific to New Zealand (Mastodon.nz is the one I'm on, and the other I know of is cloudisland.nz).
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom welcome! If sometime you want to find a more local community, I think there are instances created by and for New Zealand folks!
Don't hesitate to follow hashtags of things you like until your feed is more alive, and you can also see the feed of the forkiverse if you want to talk with your community
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@Torithom
I volunteer with the Ottawa Jazz festival. It has been 32 years. Time flies when you are having a good time. I hope you enjoyed the Victoria festival!I see that there is a big risk that Victoria will lose Herman's. That would be very sad. It is so hard to keep live music venues alive.
I will check out your music. Thank you!
@gardencat ohno, that's not good about Herman's! It's been about a decade now but I used to go there, special place.
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@MrAndrewD well it is disconcerting to see people riding on the other side but it seems pretty relevant to here, and ideas transferrable to other advocacy contexts too.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom Welcome! Welcome! I looked blindly around not knowing where to start and I'm still a beginner but, use the search function and look for things you're interested in such as permaculture/music/musicians/socialscience, etc. check some out and follow/boost as you wish. Make a few posts. Unfollow the posts you don't want anymore and find hashtags of posts you like and then check those out and pretty soon you'll have followers and a pretty good feed going.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom Your intro works well! Glad you’re here. If you don't mind, I think I'll follow you, as I also have a passion for complaining in writing.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom The web Mastodon I find isn't as good as installing a Mastodon client program. More options.
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Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.
@Torithom there'll be plenty of people who will happily step into the role of Telling You How To Use [anything] Properly(tm), but honestly, if you're here sincerely you've 95% got the hang of it, the rest is just getting the feel of a new space
️ I'm US here (yeah, I know), in an area that's *relatively* pushing back against All That, I'm a musician in person (vibes, piano, jazz, little bit of everything) but I've done a terrible job of sharing that side of me on here, I've tended to focus on a blossoming new nature photography hobby, because in my view there's a severe shortage of joy in the world right now, so any small thing I can do to try to contribute to the reserves and counter that, seems like a good life goal right now ^_^ I have a few online-only NZ friends, happy to make the acquaintance of one more
