Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone.

I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting.

Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/

We've been playing Fury of Dracula for decades, since first edition, and I continue to wish it was a better game. It's about 2 hours of fun spread across 4 hours.

Today we got lucky and found Dracula in Rome early on, but he slipped away. When we finally cornered him again, he ambushed and gravely weakened our hunters with a New Vampire. They didn't have any juice left to take him out and he even managed to defeat Mina.

#BoardGames

@digital_carver
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I think there are a few reasons why it differs. Qoto is a few versions behind default Mastodon. And this also allows for putting the followed stuff in other timelines, like in one of your own lists. I'm not sure default Mastodon can do this.

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

You know how most people just have one phone number?

That's possible because all phone providers in the world federate together. No matter which provider you use, you can call anyone anywhere.

Well, Mastodon (and the Fediverse it's a part of) is the same thing but for social media. The Fediverse address on your profile is enough for people on other servers to follow you and interact with you. It looks like this:

@ (username) @ (server)

There's a video about it here:

https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD

A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week:

If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around!

If you're wanting a simple quick way to explain how Mastodon works, there's an official animation from a few years ago which goes over the general principles. Here's a copy of it someone uploaded to the Fediverse:

https://tilvids.com/w/hRzMpJwSkqEK3ZTNPbSuqu

The original video is on YouTube if you prefer that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

The principles explained in the video also apply to the whole Fediverse that Mastodon is part of: many servers talking to each other to form a single network.

#Mastodon

This was pretty easy to set up, tbh. Hi folks! #twittermigration

✨ New to the fediverse?

Discover accounts to follow on https://fediverse.info/explore/people

The different feeds can get a lil confusing, so here is a graphic explaining what makes up each of the three home, local, and federated timelines (2/3)