Coffee Pancake Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Seeing as that one birdy social media site is currently on fire and just outlawed talking about other social media platforms, lets all try to meet up on Mastodon Second Life official is there at https://mastodon.social/@secondlife Mastodon has a teeny bit of a learning curve. First you need to pick a server (or instance as its called), this will be your local group. You can see and follow and be followed by anyone anywhere on any instance, and you can change instance later if you like. Find an instance from https://joinmastodon.org/servers and pick something that sounds like it matches your interests, you might have to apply and write a little bit about yourself, things are crazy busy with signups and places are trying to keep the bots out. Once you get all sorted and logged in, enable the advanced UI in preferences and you will get a Tweet deck style web interface. There are a number of apps for both iOS and Android, everyone has their favorite. To follow someone, anyone, the easiest way is to search for them @username@server .. so to find second life official, search for "@secondlife@mastodon.social" There is no all powerful algorithm pushing what's popular so to get some reach you need to use hashtags, you can even follow a hashtag like a friend so it all shows up in your feed. Posts are called Toots. You can edit them after you send them. There are no adverts. The people are all real people. Personally I've been amazed at the number and quality of interactions, it's night & day different from other places and really feels like the old social internet from 2007. I'm on as @0xc0ffea@tech.lgbt If you're on, post your user names 5 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Bunny Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 (edited) Omg coffee I saw you post this 😍 I'm on @cherryblossomgirl@tech.lgbt Mastodon is really really great, it feels like the early Internet, the engagement is some of the best and highest quality on the whole Internet. Edited December 18, 2022 by May Bunny correction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Kips Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 You can find me here: @ghostykips@mindly.social 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Bunny Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Oh, a piece of advice for new users, go and look at the #TwitterMigration and #FollowFriday hashtags 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Starlight Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 I'm @lucky@mastodon.nz on there -- you'll also see me posting frequently in the #SecondLife hashtags even if you don't follow me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Mistwood Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Here's mine. I haven't done much with it, yet. @cinnamonss@universeodon.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick0678 Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Meh.. looks boring plus all i see "Trending" in it's front page are posts about randoms being banned from Twitter. That's like taking a divorce and still complaining about your ex everywhere you go, i don't even like Elon Musk but these losers are pathetic. 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modulated Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Had no use for Twitter so I'd have no use for this one either. 11 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimmi Zehetbauer Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Seems complicated. I did fire Twitter long ago --- even before Musk had his eyes on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Heartsong Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 (edited) I'm on the Mastadon main art server, and post my sketches, in progress paintings, and finished works, but also registered with and use my real name/common online handle so do not want to associate Kat and the real me in RL space. I may join a second Mastadon server with a different account just for this though, if for no other reason than to say hi to @Coffee Pancake Edited December 18, 2022 by Katherine Heartsong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 20 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said: Had no use for Twitter so I'd have no use for this one either. Twitter's got its uses, though honestly, I just follow Second Life news here. Grid status update tweets are helpful, but until Second Life completely leaves the bird OR that platform explodes, I'll keep getting my maintenance updates over there or on the server update site page thinggie (I'm tired). Mastodon seems confusing and takes quite a bit of time to load on desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggi Wycliffe Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 I'm @owlmagnet.mastodon.social. I post a lot of things other than SL related, but it's the first place I've posted ANYTHING about SL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 it tells me I can not sign up on it, but can pick something else to sign up to interact with that one. hm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 You will be able to see messages from people on different servers, pick a server that matches your personal interests .. so maybe find a furry one (there are a few). You get to see the servers local chatter and can follow specific accounts from any federated server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 11 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said: You will be able to see messages from people on different servers, pick a server that matches your personal interests .. so maybe find a furry one (there are a few). You get to see the servers local chatter and can follow specific accounts from any federated server. @skunky@ohai.social figured it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Vortex Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 I'm @GregEddyCat@mindly.social Still trying to figure my way around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animats Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 @animats@sfba.social 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubey Terra Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I'm glad you're doing this. I'm @cubeyterra@mastodon.social 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obake Tokugawa Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I'm SpicyNugget@vulpine.club 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeathcliffMontague Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 @Heath@ieji.de Just chose a server that seemed fairly neutral and happened to be German. Absolutely no idea what I'm doing here. George Takei is on, though, so there is that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Bunny Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said: Twitter's got its uses, though honestly, I just follow Second Life news here. Grid status update tweets are helpful, but until Second Life completely leaves the bird OR that platform explodes, I'll keep getting my maintenance updates over there or on the server update site page thinggie (I'm tired). Mastodon seems confusing and takes quite a bit of time to load on desktop. It's not confusing at all really. You make an account on a server, you make your bio, you follow people and you use hashtags. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feorie Frimon Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 @FeorieFrimon@toot.community 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeathcliffMontague Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 minute ago, May Bunny said: It's not confusing at all really. You make an account on a server, you make your bio, you follow people and you use hashtags. That part I get. But what if "your" server is down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I like that we're here on a forum sharing contact info for another forum. Says a lot about SL. 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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