Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

p.p.s. The server mastodon.social is NOT a good place to sign up, for many different reasons (more info here: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server).

If you just want one alternative, https://mas.to is a much better option. It's reliable and has been online since 2019, and doesn't suffer from the problems of mastodon.social.

If you want to choose from a wide selection of servers, there are human curated lists of well-run reliable servers at https://fedi.garden and https://joinmastodon.org/servers

Ellie Kennard
@elliek@zeroes.ca

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
But the trouble is, that the time they read this, they've already signed up on it! Probably?

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@elliek@zeroes.ca

If they've only just signed up and haven't done much yet, they can forget about their mastodon.social account and sign up again on mas.to or elsewhere. It just takes a few minutes. (Also they can recommend to friends to go on mas.to or wherever.)

If they've been on mastodon.social for a while, they can move their account elsewhere (transfer guide is at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/).

Theolodian
@theolodian@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @elliek@zeroes.ca sorry, it’s all a bit too complicated. Also, I only use the Mastodon app on my iPad. I don’t connect to social media EVER on my computer.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@theolodian@mastodon.social @elliek@zeroes.ca

You don't have to use a computer to do the transfer, you can use the web version of Mastodon on your iPad by using your iPad's web browser Safari.