I'm Samantha E Xavia, a Trans Woman from Southampton, England. I run my own Instance for my local area 'southampton.social' and am a cofounder of @transpride for Southampton.
I've created videos for over 10 years and now run a Video Editing company @vexdotblue
More info about me will be linked to this one as a Thread, so feel free to read more about me.
My year with Mastodon (#MastodonWrapped)
I celebrated my first #Mastoversary a few days ago. It’s been a good first year on Mastodon for me; I like the #Fediverse idea, I like people here, and I like the calm vibe this place offers.
Also, I ditched all of my other #SocialMedia accounts. All but one.¹
As I say, Mastodon is a good #platform to be, however there are a couple of things I’ve been struggling with the whole time. I’m going to put together a brief summary below in hope that someone can help me with them.
¹ I still keep Instagram to exchange cute pics of sloths and pandas, and ice-hockey reels with my sons. 😁
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The thing that buggers me the most is boosting.
I know boosting is important because it’s the only way to spread the news around as there are no #algorithms here to force-feed us what they “think” is good for us, and I’m quite a #booster myself, too. But I’ve cut back a bit recently for a simple reason: I can’t hide boosted posts from my #profile.
I mean, when someone views my profile I want them to see my toots first so they can get an idea of who I am and, conversely, when I visit someone else’s profile I prefer to see what they have to say.
If you’re a generous booster but not so creative in the “#ContentCreation” department, just like me, you get a profile full of re-blogged posts where your original #toots are hard to find. And no, #Pinned toots don’t do the trick.
If there’s a #hack to work around this, I would much appreciate if you share it here.
Hey all you newcomers from the new wave of #TwitterMigration, I'll be checking out the #Introduction and #Introductions tags and following like minded folks or interesting people.
Keep getting follow requests from folks mainly who have been here as long if not longer than me!
With little to no #profile no #pinned posts, it's not difficult folks big yourself up a little, use #hashtags just makes life easier for everyone
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