@freemo is there a way of friending people like on facebook?

@Ilsa No facebook doesnt federate with mastodon or the fediverse

@freemo didn’t understand much of that reply, I’m afraid. I guess what I’m asking, is can you link with specific people? Can you have groups with specific interests? I find facebook useful/entertaining/enlightening, but I want to move away from it because ethically it stinks. I was looking for something with similar features that doesn’t track your data and microtarget you with political lies

@Ilsa there is diaspora*, that's a bit more like facebook, from what I understand. https://diasporafoundation.org/

mastodon is more like twitter

@namark thank you. I never went into the shark-infested waters of twitter, so I’m feeling a bit lost and blinking here. Clearly a lovely group of helpful and fun people, from my encounters over the past hour

@Ilsa

Compassion is pretty much our only real rule when it comes down to it :) Trying to bring back mutual respect on the internet again for people no matter what opinions they hold political or otherwise

@namark

@freemo @namark that is a wonderful rule. Would that it were the rule everywhere! I seem to have difficulty logging in, as my password doesn’t seem to be recognised. Then, without quite knowing what I’ve done, I seem to be in anyway. I also have signed up for one of your “art” servers - a photography one. This is probably a stupid question, coming from a non-techie, but is it possible to streamline them, so I can have my art ogling and my (compassionate, respectful) political rants in one place? I would like to drag my facebook friends over too, and would like a forum that is simple and easy to use