If you're on Mastodon please list your moniker so I can find and follow you.

[lindysalsagal]

I'm just getting started there. @[e-mail]

[Clash City Rocker]

1. What's it like?

I’ve heard it’s structured differently than Twitter. Is there a system in place to prevent trolling and hate speech? Can posts there be displayed elsewhere on the net, as is the case with Twitter?

I was thinking about trying Twitter, shortly before Musk decided to turn it into 4chan. I might look into Mastodon.

[lindysalsagal]

3. I'm not a good judge of the place.

[orthoclad]

7. Since Masto is not a capitalist for-profit,

I joined, but I haven't figured out how to place a post yet.

I find the defult black background annoying, showing a bias towards phones, but I figured out how to change that.

I never joined the birdcage. I have to wonder: since a psycho right-winger now owns the place, does he own all the data users surrendered in order to participate? OF COURSE he would never abuse that! /s
Does he still own that personal data even if people close their accounts? (like Facebook NEVER deletes a photo from their database, even if the user deletes it. They use pics to train their facial recognition.)
Maybe users should falsify as much info as possible before quitting.

[Samrob]

9. I signed up for POST. Now on the wait-list. nt

[orthoclad]

10. Is it private property?

I haven't investigated yet.

[DavidDvorkin]

20. The background seems to vary by instance

It's white by default on mine, quoto.org.

[BootinUp]

14. This general help info site

is well done and worth a look. https://mastodon.help/en

[cilla4progress]

21. You found me there,

right Bootin? I found you and am following.

[BootinUp]

23. Yep.

I am following you.

[BootinUp]

16. You can browse it without having an account. (Edited)

You just go any instance home page. The Local Timeline is from people with accounts on that server. The federated timeline is across the whole network of recognized servers.

https://mastodon.social/explore


At least on some instances you can use their search / explore function even without being signed in. Try the link above see if you can
search it. Edit: I guess it only returns hashtags, so yeah unauthenticated guests can only do limited searches and views.

[GoneOffShore]

2. I may get a Mastodon account.

Amy Siskind is there and is also very active on Facebook.

@[e-mail]

[cilla4progress]

4. @[e-mail]

Let me know if you find me there!

[lindysalsagal]

5. No idea why, but it won't find it in either form. Maybe I'm not catching on....

[BootinUp]

22. Use the search box which you can always show by clicking on explore

Use the search box which you can always show by clicking on explore from the main menu. In the search box put the whole address like it is posted in the message above including the @ character. Hit enter, and check under people you should find a link to click. That will take you to a screen where you can click the follow button.

[cilla4progress]

26. Try again -

Here's a link.

Sorry for the previous misspelling!

https://mastodon.social/@CillyS

[cilla4progress]

27. Another way...

[e-mail]

[lindysalsagal]

31. OK. Now I found you! It's still glitchy.

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Shouldn't that be mastodon.social?

[cilla4progress]

24. You are right!

I was misspelling mastodon for awhile!

Lindsay - go check again with corrected spelling:

See if this link works?

https://mastodon.social/@CillyS

[lindysalsagal]

28. Nothing works. Who knows?

[cilla4progress]

29. Hmmm...??

I am following you and sent you a dm - once you get it up and running!

[sellitman]

6. So far there is a good learning curve

It's not the same but it actually has promise.

[e-mail]

[MuseRider]

8. Just following along in curious mode.

I had a Twitter acount and never really used it except to read endless silly and serious posts of people I admire mostly not political people. I never could figure out how to answer or post on someones thread. I basically started it to hassle a good friend of mine who was onstage getting ready to make his debut on bass clarinet in a well known jazz group. It was an endless time waste for me sadly so I am trying not to be interested in Mastodon. I will read what is posted here however as the time waste was me not the site.

[regnaD kciN]

11. @[e-mail]

[onecaliberal]

12. @[e-mail]

I am enjoying the experience there so far.

[BootinUp]

13. Mastodon tip

Uncheck The crop images in your mastodon preferences.
@[e-mail]

[Nittersing]

15. https://mas.to/@Nittersin

Yes, my fingers missed the "g" when I signed up.

[CousinIT]

17. Mastadon, Twitter, Post...

@[e-mail]
@sevenbowie (Twitter)
https://post.news/sevenbowie

[lindysalsagal]

32. Gotcha!

[DavidDvorkin]

18. @[e-mail]

[cilla4progress]

25. Thanks for the follow!

[lindysalsagal]

35. It wouldn't pick you up. Not sure if that's because we're in different "instances."

I'll try again, later. There are times when it works better, probably with less traffic.

[DavidDvorkin]

38. I found and followed you

You should be able to follow back. Mastodon is a bit quirky, though.

[lindysalsagal]

39. Great! Thanks!

[lindysalsagal]

41. Hasn't made it's way to me yet, but I'll keep a lookout. Thanks.

[cilla4progress]

30. I find mastodon works best

on my laptopl

[ananda]

33. I can't figure Mastodon out. I thought I had an account there...

but it doesn't work.

I'm also on Post. That one works.

[lindysalsagal]

36. It's confusing and it glitches constantly, then works later. I can get around and

change my account, but when it asks for my email to log in, it let me change the password once, and then hasn't worked since.

[ananda]

40. Well, Post works fine, so that's good.

nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. Uh-huh. Bet yer hunting for Bigfoot while on your mastodon.

A distributed network such as mastodon seems more resilient than a privately-owned thing like twitter.

[Mad_Machine76]

37. .........

Maru_Mara76

Feel free to follow! I haven't really used it too much so far but if I'm there I'll be posting a lot of political and Star Wars stuff