Category: Social Media

  • Fediverse: Directory of Links

    Learn about Mastodon and Options when leaving Twitter

    Mastodon is not a single website. To use it, you need to make an account with a provider—we call them servers—that lets you connect with other people across Mastodon

    TIP: Your full username consists of: @ your username @ your server It always needs to include the username and the server since Mastodon sits on servers worldwide the complete address must be used. This is the address you must share with others if you want them to find you.

    Fedi.Tips – An unofficial guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse. If you are a newbie, one of the very first pages to read is How To Use Mastodon and the Fediverse: Basic Tips

    JoinMasodon.org – (Official Site) The servers listed here have all committed to specific standards of technical reliability and responsible content moderation. Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people.

    Fedi.Directory – A human-curated collection of Fediverse accounts that tend to post about specific topics, so it’s a smaller selection but with more guaranteed quality.

    Trunk Community – Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse. Mastodon is a free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network.

    Fedivers.info – Helps find people, groups, and topics on the Fediverse.

    FediVideo – Shares videos and livestreams from around the Fediverse.

    Third Party Apps

    Tusky (Android) – Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), a free and open-source social network server. It supports all Mastodon features, like photos, videos, lists, custom emojis and is designed according to material guidelines.

    Fedilab (Android) – Fedilab is a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse, consisting of micro blogging, photo sharing and video hosting.

    Metatext (iPhone)

    Toot! (iPhone)

    Just Some More TIPS

    TIP: Create a great Profile including interests showing that you are a human being. The first sentence should be a really good summary of what the rest of the bio contains.

    TIP: New user? Use the hashtags #Introduction, #Introductions and #NewHere

    TIP: Add yourself to Trunk

    TIP: Reply to other folk’s posts

  • Offering to Take Photos for Strangers So Everyone Can Be in Picture is a Kind Act that Results in Pure Joy by Ross Reck

    Offering to Take Photos for Strangers So Everyone Can Be in Picture is a Kind Act that Results in Pure Joy by Ross Reck

    Engagement

    A friend and her husband were having dinner out when they noticed a couple seated at a table not far from them. The two people seemed happy as well as excited and were taking photos of each other. My friend walked over to them and asked if they would like her to take a photo of them so they could both be in the picture. Their answer was, “Would you? We just got engaged and are trying to capture the moment.” My friend took several photos with their camera and when she was finished, they were all smiles and couldn’t thank her enough. When she returned to her table, her husband was smiling having taken in the whole incident. Others in the restaurant who had seen the incident were smiling as well. My friend said that offering to take those photos elevated the mood of their entire evening. It was a kind act on her part that resulted in pure joy for everyone involved.

    One Sentence Wisdom

    • “Kindness is spreading sunshine into people’s lives regardless of the weather.” — RAKtivist
    • “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • Marketing Your Web Presence? Note Where Adults are Active

    Where U.S. Adults Are Active on Social Media
    Where U.S. Adults Are Active on Social Media

    References:

    1. Statista, March 13, 2018, Felix Richter – Where U.S. Adults Are Active on Social Media
    2. Pew Research Center, March 1, 2018, Aaron Smith and Monica Anderson – Social Media Use in 2018