Here's my first Mastodon post!

Two attractive things IMO:

"channels" of practical information. My city has Fediverse announcements of power and water outages (planned or emergencies), wastewater disease tracking, other stuff it's just handy to see. More time-sensitive than a webpage, less time-sensitive than emergencies or transit outages (I get those over SMS).

Ideally useful info, not just press releases; and really ideally someplace a citizen can report trouble

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@hpod16

@hpod16

"social" is less obviously something for a government to Do, but I bet a government could help translate popular client software into all the national languages, or sponsor "how to host a small instance" the same way there are community classes in gardening or any adult pursuit.

One of my hobbyhorses is that "hosting" is TWO important jobs, the computer side and the human side -- in English it's the same kind of "host" that might run a regular salon, or a friendly bar, etc.

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@Bastianoso ️ thanks!
And what do you communicate about here?

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?

@clew as someone who loves to host (dinner parties, mainly) this point intrigues me...
What does it take to host your own server?

@hpod16 Well, everything I did over at Twitter: sharing news, writing about my day, my thoughts, my hobbies, posting photos, linking blog articles from my blog and maintaining loose contact to other friendly people here. So nothing special

@hpod16

Wholeheartedly seconding the recommendation of FediTips, i..e bullets 3-6 of the QUICK START on the landing page!

It's a guide for "how to ...", "what is ...", "where do I find ..." questions, but if you're looking for content recommendations, you need to be your own algorithm.

If you're into things like hashtag games, musical hashtag games, motto photography and similar, it's here too, but not "on the nose" to find, so just ask.

Enjoy!

@Trojaner

@Bastianoso gosh, Twitter back in the day was such a cool place to be! I joined in 2011 and fell in love. (enough so that I made social media my career for the past 10 years)

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

it's usually called "moderation" online, but IMO it's like parties!

You welcome new people, you have a sense of both the agreed beliefs and the issues that are going to be touchy for your group, you do ongoing organization so people can find the good stuff...

and sometimes you have to throw somebody out though in a good system that's RARE and it always involves some people feeling it was too early and some people feeling it wasn't early enough.

Familiar???

@hpod16
Herzlich Willkommen im
Welcome!

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?

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?

@midzer
Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon.
What could you tell people to make Mastodon look like a fun place to be?

@hpod16 @midzer
#Mosstodon I love it!

@midzer
Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon.
What could you tell people to make Mastodon look like a fun place to be?

@sparfindig
On EU politicians: the first European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen just joined last week.
@HennaVirkkunen
She was set up with an account on the official EC instance, so people know it's really her.
But I'll promote it amongst other politicians when I meet them too!

@Bastianoso gosh, Twitter back in the day was such a cool place to be! I joined in 2011 and fell in love. (enough so that I made social media my career for the past 10 years)

@hpod16 @sparfindig @HennaVirkkunen
I'd like to add the #FediFirst-Strategy for Commissioners and Institutions:
whenever you use social media to release a statement, use your Fediverse-Account first and only post it on #BigTech-Platforms a bit later (like 15 or 60 minutes).
Every newspaper that wants to be the first one has to use and therefore name the fediverse as the go-to-source instead of X or Instagram.

It is their choice which platform they want to support with their public visibility

@midzer
Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon.
What could you tell people to make Mastodon look like a fun place to be?