Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.
Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •even then, you probably speak more sense than most sober people!
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Not sure how the different servers work. How do you find people on them?
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in reply to Avogadro's Constant • •@Avogadro's Constant Friendica is a different platform. Mastodon is, roughly, like Twitter. Friendica is, roughly, like Facebook.
Finding people: follow people you like the look of. You will see them interact with other people. If you like the look of them, follow them too.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Luna:babaw_is: NOT :babaw_cute: :trans_verify:
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Also, using the different timelines is a good way of finding people to follow. For example, Calckey has these five:
- Home: People you're following
- Local: People on your instance
- Recommended: People on a few instances picked by your admins
- Social: Home + Local
- Global: Everything from every instance yours is aware of
billy joe bowers is tired 🇺🇦
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •This is the most important thing people aren't getting.
You know, everyone is different and really you don't have to interact with people, you don't even have to follow if you just want to post. You can do whatever you want.
What absolutely does not work is not following anyone and then complaining because nothing is happening here.
It's like locking yourself in your bedroom and crying "This is the most boring club ever!"
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Bez
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Hello Sarah!
Other than sailing and warm weather, what are some things that bring you joy?
Sarah Brown
in reply to Bez • •@Bez Earl Grey, although of late I’ve developed quite the fancy for Yorkshire Tea.
I’m also learning Portuguese, which is very hard work, but rewarding.
And I still do some climbing-adjacent stuff: via ferrata, arborism, that kind of stuff. I just can’t do proper rock climbing because I have early onset #Dupuytrens disease.
Bez
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I had to look up ferrata/arborism.
They look super-exhilarating!
I'm sorry about your physical problems.
Enjoy Portugal! 🙂
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in reply to Tomsprints2 • • •I think some people are here for reading and don't want to post much themselves. And that's okay.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Corollary: feel free also to UNfollow early and often. Following is not lifetime commitment or a promise of friendship, it's just wanting to see someone's messages.
For example, I love @doctorow's writing, but unfollowed him when it became apparent there was just too much of it, and it was overwhelming my timeline. It's all good.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Dekkzz :emacs:
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •same applies to searching by #hashtag
search early search often
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You can follow them nowadays... @goatsarah
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I couldn't agree more. Makes perfect sense but then I'm sure you already knew that, just I'm not sure about "liking the way people look" 😂😂
Beginning to wonder if I need a whole new wardrobe or maybe a new range of make-up
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#newtomastodon #newtofediverse
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