Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

@albertcardona @heyjencross

I do see a fair amount of nature photographers joining the Fediverse. That's great!

@Theraviranjankr Does reading on the internet count? ;)

@kawherp Aw, you sound like an excellent parent!

@Decad3nce @pganssle We don't depend on algorithms to decide which user gets to see what. Everybody has equal chance to browse the public timelines.

I love it. :)

@mucida Not an exile here either, but welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

@shibaprasad Whatever moderation we have you can find in the About this server page! I don't think we have changed much over the years, no.

@davidjenni Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse, then! :)

@Cornvelious_Dan Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

mastodon.social is really getting slammed with new users. It's a good move to join a smaller instance!

@seedyh Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

@Muller @lucifargundam I know there is F-droid for Android, so they definitely exist!

@peterdrake Wait, you managed to reach the mythical Inbox Zero?

Oh man, we are not worthy!

@physicsninja Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse! I'm sure you'll fit right in!

@smokefire @HumanITy Oh come on, we're better than that! We're on a microblogging platform, but this ain't Twitter! ;)

But if you know how Twitter works, this should be easy to figure out as well. Make sure to read our server rules and take some time to explore your settings, there are so many options!

@HumanITy Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse! :)

@lucifargundam @Aliali Mmm. 🤔

@shuttersparks Welcome to Qoto! :)

@smokefire There are whole instances devoted to nasty stuff. Rightwing instances for example. Best is just to block their domains if they agitate you. Qoto doesn't block anything by default, we leave that power in the hands of the users.

@c_ratcliffe You know, I bet many tech lovers think this too!

@manojpawar Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

As you can see from another comment, there will always be people who are not that friendly. Thankfully our block features are excellent and you, as user, can block whole domains if they're filled with people like them! :)

@quest

A hint I can give is that the Fediverse (of which Mastodon is part) uses hashtags heavily for finding content. So you could search for topics you're interested in with hashtags.

You could also browse the local timeline and the federated timeline

You could also post an introduction of yourself with topics you're interested in, add hashtags of the keywords.

Mastodon (and other Fediverse servers) do not rely on algorithms, so you'll have to get active to find a nice list of people to follow. Maybe check out the followfridays or ff tags as well to get some more ideas.

If you find somebody you want to follow, check their followers too, maybe there's yet another like-minded individual you can follow.

This way the network spreads out slowly and naturally.

Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!