Here's my first Mastodon post!

@hpod16 Welcome and greetings from NY!

@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.

@Trojaner @hpod16 What do you call these icon things? Don’t think the server I’m on supports it

@Aaron thanks!
I appreciate the warm welcome I'm getting here.

@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)

@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 – an artist in the moderator team made this possible.

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?

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/115915048462163615

And this
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131

And 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/

@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.

@hpod16

@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.

@hpod16

@der_schrank @nitrml
I really appreciate the input about calling it the "fediverse" instead.
I promise to look into it

@alex_p_roe I know them as emojis or emojos. You can ask your administrators if they can install additional symbols. @hpod16

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?

@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.

@hpod16 Welcome!