@david You missed the most important tag #introduction !
I've been enjoying your toots already. Am also learning webdev, stumbling along. Nice to meet you.
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@Rovine Also thank you, you as well! I saw that database of discovering people on the fediverse, got added to a few, and spent a while finding other people on there to follow. I'm still on Twitter, but Mastodon has been way better for me, especially this year.
@david I don't even use Twitter myself. This whole microblog culture is honestly new to me, but I came here as my Reddit alternative. It takes some getting used to - having to follow individuals and watch out for tags, instead of just subscribing to subreddits. But it's growing on me and I hope you will have a good time here too.
@david Reddit is still good for niche interests and local / city stuff, but all the major subs are drowned in bots and fake content now.
@Rovine I do want to find more good communities. I have always wanted to do projects focused around online communities specifically and am finally making some time for that. How do you generally use it? Posting and responding, passively getting content, something else?
@david Mastodon is a bit weird for my head to wrap around. I'm generally a lurker so I go to federated timeline and browse toots there, or just browse my follow timeline if I'm not in a wild mood.
Since you are hosting tech.lgbt yourself, the way Fediverse work is that you have to follow people from different instances to start seeing stuff on federated timeline, from other instances that you don't already follow.
That also makes a good block list very important so your federated timeline doesn't have stuff that trigger you mixed in it. I'm not familiar with admining an instance but I've heard there're common suggested block lists out there.
@Rovine Yeah, I run a block list of a few instances and handle reports as they come in, though I only have a few active users besides myself, and I'm definitely the most active here. I just realized that I forgot to add #IndieWeb to my intro post, doh. Too late to do it yet again I guess, or maybe I'll do a new one later.
I was referring to Reddit and how you specifically use it, not Mastodon. I'm fairly comfortable here so far!
@david Oh yeah Reddit is quite easy (to me). There's a famous saying "there's a sub for everything". There are subreddits for origami, traumatised people, cat summoning circles, random acts of postcards/pizza, your city, your music genre, etc. Generally you'll find them when you use Reddit's search, or stumble into them in someone's comments, or a subreddit's introduction info if they link any other places.
You participate by upvoting content, or downvoting them if they're not relevant to the sub (although most people have been using upvote/downvote as more of a personal like/dislike thing instead of that). You can also save a post for your own keepsake, or reply, or contribute to something new by making a new post. It's a bit more like a forum than Twitter.
@Rovine Thanks! 💝 I never got into Reddit but have looked at it a few times as a place that I could probably find lots of interesting things at. I just get busy and am trying to cut the number of places that I'm active overall.