Here's my first Mastodon post!

[tute_reyes@c.im]

@hpod16 hola, Hannah! Qué alegría verte por aquí! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻😄😄 Pues, para empezar, Mastodon es el Internet libre que ningún billonario tecnofascista puede comprarse y manejar a su antojo, al tratarse de una red federada.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

Thanks for the warm welcome, @tomstoneham!
I'm getting a lot of good tips and resources here :)
Hoping to be up to speed ASAP and in a position to motivate others to join

[midzer@chaos.social]

@hpod16 "Do good and talk about it."

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@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@digitalcourage.social]

@hpod16 @HennaVirkkunen 😃👍

[midzer@chaos.social]

@hpod16 About the federation aspect: "Life is awesome and full of choices. Choosing an instance for your account is fun, too. We did this for e-mail in the past. You have the freedom, you decide."

[t3sserakt@c3d2.social]

@hpod16 @ngi Welcome! Please promote the idea of decentralization. Empower communities to have their own instances. There is this analogy with email. For better or worse, because there is always the danger of centralization, even though the underlying technology is decentralized. Just as it happened with email. Government institutions should also decentralize across all administrative units to make this idea clear. It is not enough to support the decentralized gathering of civil society in the Fediverse by funding the technical infrastructure. Software development must also continue to be funded, as has been done for years by the Next Generation Internet initiative.

[clew@ecoevo.social]

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

[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16

- no advertisement
- less spam
- far less hate
- real people
- there's an "Edit" and even a very helpful "Delete and Regenerate" function for posts
- Mastodon does have a very powerful Search function 🔍, just like Twitter back then
- even if people often say it, it's neither "complicated", nor does it NOT have algorithms: it does, but they're not mandatory, but optional
- supports CW (content Warnung) and ALT-texts for inclusion/accessibility

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[brennpunktua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16

- you can FULLY (and fully means fully!) use even without an app, as opposed to e.g. Instagram
- you can passively participate (read everything, not just a limited preview) even without an account!
- for quotes, you have far more options than on other platforms and you decide, who can quote you (even afterwards)
- you choose your "home", but are still connected with the whole fediverse

And give imperialists a kick in the ass! 🙏😉

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[ciarancuffe@mastodon.ie]

@iBallesty @hpod16 Good question. Very difficult to build followers, but I like the space and 'vibe'. I find Bluesky best for feedback, and I also post on Truth Social, just to watch the madness in real time.

[clew@ecoevo.social]

@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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[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

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

[bastianoso@mastodon.social]

@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 😊

[wolfgang@gotosocial.whammes.dynv6.net]

@hpod16 @BlumeEvolution

Welcome in the world of fediverse!

[clew@ecoevo.social]

@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@eupolicy.social]

@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)

[microblogc@neopaquita.es]

@proscien5ce@toot.community
Remember, you can follow hashtags to discover people.

@hpod16 @Trojaner

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@Bastianoso I'm still pretty salty about what happened to it.
It's an awful place now.

[u_urban@social.tchncs.de]

@hpod16
Herzlich Willkommen im
Welcome!