Adnan @Decad3nce@qoto.org

New folks, just a reminder: continue to follow and unfollow people, curate that nice home timeline of yours. Be curious and open up profiles of everyone you see here — whether that’s from a boost or a reply from an existing follower to someone else. Good luck!

P.s. Keep posting about your day and thoughts like it’s 2007 and Twitter hasn’t yet taken off. Just vibe. We’re all here to chill. Mostly. Find your community, not an audience.

#FediTips

Another quick PSA for the newcomers:

There is no Mastodon.

As in, there is no entity out there called Mastodon that needs to "get it together" or "make things easier."

Every server is a unique collection of hardware and software operated by a unique team of (usually) volunteer humans funded by (usually) donations.

Some days will be smoother than others. We new folks have flooded the network. Cut the volunteers some slack. Better yet, offer support.

The idea that federation prevents full-text search or the creation of a daily “main character” is turning me into a Mastodon believer.

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See the following page for more info on how it works, and share it with whoever manages your organization's website—and feel free to reach out directly if you have questions! 3/3

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

Setting up a server from scratch might take some time, even if you successfully lobby your org, so here's a much simpler approach:

If you already have an author/staff profile page on wired.com, and that page has a link to your Mastodon profile with `rel="me"` on the HTML tag, then you can use that link to verify your Mastodon profile. Technically speaking, this will be *super* easy to get done. 2/3

Journalists: here's how to get your Mastodon profile verified. (Please boost this, people!) 🧵

Because Mastodon is self-hosted, the best way to verify your identity is to get the IT department at your org to set up a Mastodon server on your domain. For example, if you work for WIRED, your Mastodon account could be "@yourname@follow.wired.com." It's very similar to how you'd trust an email account. There's an easier alternative, though. 1/3

There is no single site or app that is "Mastodon." This isn't like Twitter, or Facebook.

Mastodon.social isn't "Mastodon" anymore than Gmail is "email." Gmail is one very popular email server, Mastodon.social is one very popular #Mastodon server.

Same goes for mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to, etc.

This seems to be tripping up a lot of new people during the #twittermigration to the #fediverse

#FediTips

I was invited to give a talk to my department about using Twitter for academic engagement.

Attaching my slides below for reference in case anyone finds them helpful:

Everyone should be able to support their families. Not just those who win the employment lottery, only to lose it to the richest man in the world. Everyone deserves the dignity of being able to provide for their family. I’m taking around the world. His wealth is an obscenity.

* the tech industry is highly stratified, globalized and hierarchical and many within it do not experience it as financially, psychologically, or physically secure.

If anything, this should demonstrate the extreme precariousness of the whole of all people if those in what are arguably some of the best working conditions in the world* can be discarded with no consequence.