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
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