Hey new fedi people: Mastodon isn't like those other apps. It's like going for a walk in the woods. First, start with being quiet. Take note of the plant witch in the moss covered hut. Click follow. Observe the gentle troll sleeping in a pile of leaves. Click follow. Say hello to the owl peering down at you from the oak tree. Click follow. Keep following until your feed is a calm forest stream flowing past lichen covered stones. Now you have reached the meadow. Take a nap. #fedimigration
@rabbit_fighter Don't forget to lichen subscribe.
@Domini, some helpful intro advice.
@rabbit_fighter I'm a stone you kick and sounds hollow for some reason.
@rabbit_fighter Heh. I've been in the Fediverse for a while because I post on micro.blog, but I didn't quite get how it worked until the last two weeks. BlueSky is a kind of gateway drug that acts like traditional social media but talks to the Fediverse. Finding accounts I like and weaning myself off Trending and Discover feeds. Quiet is good.
@rabbit_fighter Don’t forget the nosy rabbit.
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I find Mastodon reminds me of RSS or podcast feeds.
Without subscriptions you see very little and the app might show you things you may or may not be interested in. There's no filter bubble, the app does not know you or your interests.
Start subscribing to what you want to see and it will fit perfectly into your life.
@rabbit_fighter
Some of us locate a ripe
Sit down & gobble them up!
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related: #LichenSubscribe #mosstodon
(there are hashtags in the forest to find more creatures!)
"Hashtags in the forest"!!!!!
@rabbit_fighter Oh!!!
I love this description!!!!!
@rabbit_fighter I'm not a gentle troll. I'm vicious, mean and horrible. I have halitosis that can kill a man at 100 yards and my farts are used in war as weapons of mass destruction.
I eat babies alive, floss my teeth with the spines of my victims and am constantly found ravishing oak trees. Pine will do but oak are more sexually satisfying :p