Here's my first Mastodon post!
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@Aaron hello from Brussels right back at you!
Got any tips for a Mastodon newbie?@hpod16 Sure! You can follow hashtags! If there’s a topic you enjoy, you can follow that instead of individual users.
We're big on alt-text here, so please add it to images you include in your posts.
YOU are the algorithm. If you see something cool or interesting, boosting that post is what gives it legs.
You can follow or share from other Fedi services here on Mastodon.
EVERYONE's posts are an RSS feed, meaning you can literally subscribe to a Mastodon user & see their posts in your RSS reader. -
@hpod16 Sure! You can follow hashtags! If there’s a topic you enjoy, you can follow that instead of individual users.
We're big on alt-text here, so please add it to images you include in your posts.
YOU are the algorithm. If you see something cool or interesting, boosting that post is what gives it legs.
You can follow or share from other Fedi services here on Mastodon.
EVERYONE's posts are an RSS feed, meaning you can literally subscribe to a Mastodon user & see their posts in your RSS reader.@Aaron thanks!
I appreciate the warm welcome I'm getting here.
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@alex_p_roe I know them as emojis or emojos. You can ask your administrators if they can install additional symbols. @hpod16
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@Aaron thanks!
I appreciate the warm welcome I'm getting here.@hpod16 YW. Small steps, ya know?
I forgot to mention in the tips that you can edit your posts after sending them. That's a godsend. Anyhow, it's great to 'meet' you and welcome to the party. Hope the rest of your day is fantastic.
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- you can FULLY (and fully means fully!) use
even without an app, as opposed to e.g. Instagram
- you can passively participate (read everything, not just a limited preview) even without an account!
- for quotes, you have far more options than on other platforms and you decide, who can quote you (even afterwards)
- you choose your "home", but are still connected with the whole fediverseAnd give imperialists a kick in the ass!
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@hpod16 I forgot, how could I!!!
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DOES NOT sell YOUR DATA, TRACK or MONITOR YOU!And it's VERY unlikely that it will be taken over by fascists!
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@hpod16 Awesome! Should probably move right to the top of the sharing options.
Maybe it would make sense to migrate to using the term "fediverse" as well. Away from the product Mastodon, because there are also other products available and competing with their commercial counterparts like Friendica (alternative to Facebook), Pixelfed (alternative to Instagram) and Loops (alternative to TikTok).
(Not to mention various smaller projects and forks or alternatives to Mastodon as well)
@der_schrank that depends on how the buttons is built technically. A "share on Mastodon" button does not necessarily work for other Fediverse software. I know that there are currently multiple technical implementations of these sharebuttons across the internet, and some work for users of for example Sharkey, but others only work for Mastodon users. Not sure which is true for the EU Comm ones.
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@hpod16 @Trojaner You can find out which emojos, as they are known, are supported on your server here: https://emojos.in/
It works, I now have one after my mastodon name on my profile page and here.@alex_p_roe @hpod16 We realised that our instance urgently needed icons for ketchup
and mayonnaise 
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@alex_p_roe @hpod16 We realised that our instance urgently needed icons for ketchup
and mayonnaise – an artist in the moderator team made this possible.that looks.... delicious!
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 I think a program that would provide funding to support some types of organizations setting up their own fedi instances could be a good idea for getting more of them on board. That could get all sorts of local information streams people naturally want to subscribe to over here.
Also, looking at for example the Forkiverse you see how effective that can be in getting people to at least try fedi when there's a natural community around something.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 this is my suggestion:
https://mastodon.social/@leanderlindahl/115915048462163615And this
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131And you (the commission) should invite researcher @carl to tell you about Masto and the Fediverse. You have the power to make a difference with your presence.
https://carlheath.se/aboutme/ -
Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Convince Europeans that WhatsApp is not the answer.
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@hpod16 this is my suggestion:
https://mastodon.social/@leanderlindahl/115915048462163615And this
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131And you (the commission) should invite researcher @carl to tell you about Masto and the Fediverse. You have the power to make a difference with your presence.
https://carlheath.se/aboutme/@leanderlindahl
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@der_schrank that depends on how the buttons is built technically. A "share on Mastodon" button does not necessarily work for other Fediverse software. I know that there are currently multiple technical implementations of these sharebuttons across the internet, and some work for users of for example Sharkey, but others only work for Mastodon users. Not sure which is true for the EU Comm ones.
@nitrml you're right about the share button.
I was more thinking about the overall coverage to refer to "fediverse" instead of only "Mastodon". But I'm not a hard liner there. Better mention Mastodon than nothing at all.
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@der_schrank @nitrml
I really appreciate the input about calling it the "fediverse" instead.
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@der_schrank @nitrml
I really appreciate the input about calling it the "fediverse" instead.
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@alex_p_roe I know them as emojis or emojos. You can ask your administrators if they can install additional symbols. @hpod16
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 I thought there are plenty of Europeans here. Presumably everybody here has tried at one point or another to mention the Fediverse to their friends. Who have then ignored it because it's not what they already have on their phones. And it's probably the same everywhere. So specifically *Europeans* I don't know. People all over? Keep telling them that the big fascists run the big "social" websites. Until they maybe finally listen.
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16 Welcome!
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@hpod16 I thought there are plenty of Europeans here. Presumably everybody here has tried at one point or another to mention the Fediverse to their friends. Who have then ignored it because it's not what they already have on their phones. And it's probably the same everywhere. So specifically *Europeans* I don't know. People all over? Keep telling them that the big fascists run the big "social" websites. Until they maybe finally listen.
@phf
thanks for sharing your views! I have to admit this is also not my first attempt at the fediverse... That said this time I think I'll stay. 
Also: I say Europeans because I work for the EU - so that's my personal focus. I want our EU institutions to reach EU citizens, be it here or elsewhere. But of course the fediverse is and should be global. -
@hpod16 Welcome!
@meraord tack! Thanks for the warm welcome!
