2019-08-28 Social Media

Where to find me online:

Where to find me

@kensanata is my general Mastodon account 🐝
@kensanata is my RPG Mastodon account 🧞‍♂️
@kensanata is my long form RPG Diaspora account
you are reading this on my blog, of course 🥳

@kensanata

I’m also on Discord, occasionally.

If you have* a RPG blog, please send me an email and let me add it to one of the RPG Planets I run. For exposure! 😅

one of the RPG Planets I run

#Mastodon #RPG #Old School #Social Media

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I just set up an account. Didn’t you have a post about how to use Mastadon? It’s a little confusing.

– Michael Julius 2019-08-28 10:24 UTC

Michael Julius

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I did write 2017-11-16 How to Mastodon. These days I’m not so sure it’s still good. Instead, I see Joyeuse Noëlle’s An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon getting recommended a lot.

2017-11-16 How to Mastodon

An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon

– Alex Schroeder 2019-08-28 10:56 UTC

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Once you created an account, you can log into that account using different clients.

https://pinafore.social/

https://brutaldon.online/about

These might offer a more pleasing experience, depending on your needs. I like Mastodon as it is but I was also a TweetDeck user.

– Alex Schroeder 2019-08-28 10:58 UTC

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I think these days new accounts come with the “Enable advanced web interface” setting unchecked, so you get the single column layout. Let me think of the things that seem non-obvious to me:

search is often limited to hashtags in public posts on your server only!
thus, use hashtags every now and then so other people can find your posts
you can also search for accounts from other server: search for kensanata to find my various accounts and click on the “person plus” icon in order to follow me
sometimes clicking on an account from another server shows you that they have written posts but don’t show any of them: that’s because they haven’t been downloaded to your server, yet – if you follow them, their posts will get downloaded
clicking on the avatar on their profile takes you to their profile on their server: now you can see their public posts but since you are on their server, you can no longer favor their posts nor follow them unless you log in again
*Home* is for the posts of people you follow
*Notifications* is for posts that mention you or people favoring (liking) or boosting (sharing) your posts
*Local* is for posts from people on the same server as you
*Federated* is for posts on the same server as you, even if written by people not on your server: mostly posts from people somebody on your server is already following
clicking on a post shows you all it’s ancestors (no branches) and all its descendants (including all the branches)

Image 1 for 2017-01-05 Mermaid

– Alex Schroeder 2019-08-28 11:43 UTC

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I’m going to copy this to a new page. This advice isn’t is bad!

– Alex Schroeder 2019-08-29 06:10 UTC