📣 For fellow Mastodon rookies - I understand that ‘favouriting’ things doesn’t amplify them to your followers in the way that ‘liking’ would have on Twitter
So if you want to share something, you need to ‘boost’ it
Trying to get my head round a different threshold for sharing things on here!
@gem_abbott How do we ‘boost’? Press the circle arrow button? Recalling when I didn’t understand the simplest things on twitter either.
@Marian__Kennedy yep - that’s the one! Still finding my feet but everyone has been very welcoming and helpful so far!
Hello, a rookie here, how to search other mastodon community?
@Marian__Kennedy @Gavagai struggling with my search function still I’m afraid! If you read any good tips, please do let me know!
@gem_abbott I suspect Mastodon is overwhelmed by new joiners and there’s a delay adding new accounts into the search engine. The search functions weren’t working last night but were early this morning, now off again.
Mastodon is part of #fediverse, a universe of similar things that speak to each other. So, instead of a Mastodon instance, you can go to #pleroma and find a home there. From there follow everyone around, 🙂
A way to find out these things is to check out https://fediverse.party
