If you're helping people sign up on here, that's great! 👏
However, I'd strongly suggest not signing up on the mastodon.social server. It's way way too large and that's dangerous (here's why https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server).
I know some find choice overwhelming, so if you just want one general long-established very busy server https://mas.to is a better option for example.
There are also lots of other good servers listed at https://fedi.garden and https://joinmastodon.org/servers
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services You can invite people to join & then they join whichever instance you're on
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Can we copy this post over to other social media? Say bluesky for example...
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services if you’re vegan, veganism.social is for you 🙂
#vegan
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services how do I know if I'm doing it right?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I often see people posting an intro or something saying they finally joined Mastodon, posted from mastodon.social. It’s always tempting to suggest they migrate right away to another instance, but I don’t want to scare them off.
I wonder if more could be done up front to provide random assignment to a group of open, general-purpose instances or something.
My only complaint about mas.to is low char limits. And that’s it. lol
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I think, I may disagree with you, but feel free to discuss as Im not into the debate :)
months ago, I wrote what I call a simple guide to join & use Mastodon in Indonesian and for newbies.
in my written guide, I suggest the peoples to join mastodon.social first. the reason is always the overwhelm over the plenty choice of instances, & also to get the newbies immediately jump into onboard of Fediverse.
immediately telling them about how decentralization & federation works, makes them more overwhelmed too, as they're used into the centralized system. my main expectation: let them to be in mastodon.social (or any big instances) first. as the time passes, they'll slowly learn what is Fediverse, decentralization, federation, etc., than immediately told them, and they're overwhelmed and get bored easily.
I think, this is how "the blue butterfly" platforms does that they can got more sign-ups in the name of "decentralized", where seems their decentralization system is still "over paper", and when something bad happened, user still had no or less options to left from the same network.
where in Fediverse, of course, if something bad happened in mastodon.social, peoples can easily migrate and jump into any instances.
in my written guide, I only explain them a little bit how decentralization works, but didn't force them to understands fully. of course, as my guide is written for Indonesian audiences, I also suggest fedi.my.id as the second instance I recommend after mastodon.social as that instance is created by Indonesian for Indonesian. and also I include a guide how to migrate account from mastodon.social into other instance, example: mstdn.party.
we may have disagreement over this, but again, I also thanked much to you too, for providing a complete guide about Fediverse for who wish wanna to learn about it more that I simply can't cover in my capacity. and I already include your site in my guide as a "Further References" 🤗
https://github.com/bandarbaru-1/Panduan-Mastodon-Indonesia
p.s. If you're already on mastodon.social, you can move to a different server.
If you only just signed up and have no or very few followers, easiest option is probably to sign up on another server and forget about your mastodon.social account.
if you've already got a significant number of followers and you want to keep them, you can move your account to another server using the transfer process. There's a non-technical step-by-step guide to moving your account here: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services there are other fediverse communities to join as well, not just mastodon. there's always something which fits your requirements...
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services is it possible to migrate my account and keep my followers now that I'm starting to figure out how this app works?
@Angnor@kind.social
Feel free to copy-paste this and spread wherever 🙂
Also the text on my website is available under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike so it can be shared as well.
@th3haccoon@infosec.exchange @FediTips@social.growyourown.services it's the bit after your username. So mine is lgbtqia.space, from @ mx verda @ lgbtqia.space whereas yours is infosec.exchange, from @ th3haccoon @ infosec.exchange, like FediTips said.
@th3haccoon@infosec.exchange
You're doing it right 🙂
You are on infosec.exchange 👍
@bandarbaru_1@fedi.my.id
I understand not wanting to overwhelm people with choice, but why not just suggest mas.to instead of mastodon.social?
It's just as easy to sign up on mas.to, and just as easy to use, but it would be a much better option for the health of the network.
Mastodon.social is currently 20% of the network while mas.to is just 1%, which makes mas.to much healthier for the network as a whole. (You don't need to tell new people this part though if it's overwhelming them.)
@mkmusic@torishiro.com
Yes, of course 👍 I do list non-Mastodon servers too on https://fedi.garden
@mkmusic@torishiro.com
Yes, of course 👍 I do list non-Mastodon servers too on https://fedi.garden
Fedi.Tips
