Uns gibt es zwar schon seit über 40 Jahren, wir kämpfen weltweit gewaltfrei für den Schutz der Lebensgrundlagen, aber hier sind wir ganz neu. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit euch. #neuhier
Follow any and everyone that looks even remotely interesting to you. You can always unfollow later if needed.
Use a few relevant hashtags in your posts to reach folks with similar interests.
You can follow hashtags for subjects you're interested in! If you see a hashtag in a post, tap on it, then tap the + icon to follow all posts with that hashtag. Or search for hashtags in your Explore tab (# or search icon depending on what app you are using).
Please add #AltText to your images to improve the experience for EVERYONE. It's easy: once you've uploaded your image, just tap Edit: pretend you're describing the image to a friend who can't see it. It's the nice thing to do and increases chances your post will get boosted. Follow @PleaseCaption for reminders.
Follow @feditips for great tips on using Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Bleary-eyed and jaded, she decided she'd had enough. The memories of better times lingered, but she realized they were just that, memories. She was living in the past, aching for things to return to the way they used to be when she needed to move on. So, she closed up her home on Twitter, moved to a different platform, and started over. So many new faces! And she found herself getting lost more than once. But she knew it would all become familiar soon enough. #Welcome #Mastodon
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
Hello! I'm a Science Fiction writer interested in realism in my stories, which means plausible people having remarkable adventures in a physically plausible universe. I picked this universe because I think "space" or "physics" would be places where I can come to get my facts straight. This is my first time checking out Mastodon, let's see if I do it right.