How do you make friends in the #Fediverse?
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal The introductions tag tends to work for getting some initial exposure... as does AskFedi, apparently. But now that you've done both, I'd say: stick around for a while, post cool things... and, most-importantly, interact with people! Even if it's the tiniest "I like that" comment, it can make someone's day; and the old saw of "do for others what you'd like others to do for you" is as true here as elsewhere (:
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal in my quest to try out Matrix I've been joining every room I can find to see which i vibe with. Similar to how I started on Mastodon. And it's going great! It's like starting on the internet again.
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal hashtags yeah, but i'd recommend butting hashtags in the end, because many clients format those more nicely :)
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal Follow hastags of topics you're interested in to get to know people of likewise interests. Follow a lot of people to see if they write about things, you're interested in - and chime in on conversations you think you might have something to say or add ← don't be shy there. Communicate so you're seen. Good luck! 🙂 -
@NovemDecimal in my quest to try out Matrix I've been joining every room I can find to see which i vibe with. Similar to how I started on Mastodon. And it's going great! It's like starting on the internet again.
I have been thinking about creating a Matrix account.
Right now, I am weighing Matrix against other options like IRC and XMPP.
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@NovemDecimal hashtags yeah, but i'd recommend butting hashtags in the end, because many clients format those more nicely :)
Interesting, I didn't know that you have to put hashtags at the end for them to get a nice looking format.
Mastodon has changed a lot since my last time I've been on the Fediverse, those formatted hashtags were not a thing back then, if my memory doesn't deceive me.
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal I just gave up hoping my contacts would join the Fediverse and instead interact with people new to me there.
Here is how I seeded my Mastodon feed which, as a side effect, brought to my attention many posts and people to interact with:
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/how-i-populate-my-mastodon-feed
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@NovemDecimal in my quest to try out Matrix I've been joining every room I can find to see which i vibe with. Similar to how I started on Mastodon. And it's going great! It's like starting on the internet again.
@Hika @NovemDecimal How are you finding your rooms?
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@Hika @NovemDecimal How are you finding your rooms?
@Seedymofo @NovemDecimal here you go! I made a video https://youtu.be/-ktYop6ZGJk?t=295&si=MvqN6FaoCoTQLhpu
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal look for topics relevant to your interest, browse the federated timelines, spot posts that are interesting, follow people, contribute positively to discussions when you can
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@nabeards thank you! Are you on iOS 18.x?
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@NovemDecimal look for topics relevant to your interest, browse the federated timelines, spot posts that are interesting, follow people, contribute positively to discussions when you can
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@stefano just sent a crash report your way. After trying to login, the app just crashes. If you’d like any other info than what TestFlight gives you, let me know!
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And coming soon! I'm restarting a blog series that's near and dear to my heart: Community Spotlights.
The first person we're featuring is @Yehuda of #TurtleIsland. I can't wait to share his story with you. It's beautiful.
And that's a wrap — now let's go build the good web together 💞
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In other news, we're moving off #Discord to @zulip.
Our first step will be to migrate the people on our existing Discord servers to Zulip. Then we also want to extend access to more and different kinds of people who are deeply engaged and actively contributing to Mastodon and the #fediverse.
We're going to move slowly and carefully because we want to be thoughtful about how we build out this space. Running this community space is important, but it does add coordination and moderation overhead to our small team.
How would a space like this be useful to you? Let me know in the comments :)
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We're also going to work on the #ServerDirectory this year.
This starts with moving the directory to a new pull-request-based system so admins can submit, update, or remove entries themselves.
Another change we want to make is to add more and new ways to “classify” different types of servers including demographics, interests, and geographic regions.
Once we have that kind of information, we can start to explore new ways to incorporate it into the onboarding process. Stay tuned...
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Looking beyond Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online, our big project to support the Mastodon network of #fediverse servers this year is a series of experiments to replace the `join mastodon.social` button with a button that recommends a server running default Mastodon from an opt-in pool that we will be hand-selecting to start.
