Just made a Mastodon account!

[ainar_von_fieln@mastodon.social]

@jacadamia @pluralistic welcome! I migrated when the fascist bought twitter to influence public opinion and never looked back in regret. I feel more safe, healthier, welcome and after a while my feed was similar without the bonehead replies.
#MastodonForTheWin

[sollat@masto.ai]

@jacadamia
Welcome!

You might want to check out some hashtags or @FediTips to get more out of your feed.

[jacadamia@mastodon.social]

@Ainar_von_Fieln I've been mostly on Bluesky since then, no more Twitter for me, but I've definitely been seeing the shittiness of the Bsky mods as well so I'm keeping my eye on other things as well =v=

[drs1969@mstdn.social]

@jacadamia @pluralistic waves hello from the UK. This place is pretty Ok I think. Refreshingly free of grifters but watch out for the occasional (mostly male) sealion/mansplainer/eejit.

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@jacadamia that's great! welcome to the #Fediverse! (I'm a fan of @pluralistic as well)

[librarymonster@glammr.us]

@jacadamia @pluralistic heyoooo

[jpaskaruk@growers.social]

@jacadamia @pluralistic Welcome, and since I used to work in Animation and remain very into the art, have a follow as well.

[mfennvt@mastodon.world]

@jacadamia Welcome! @pluralistic

[musenhain@friendica.andreaskilgus.de]

@jacadamia Welcome to the Fediverse - enjoy!
@pluralistic

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@jacadamia Nice, welcome!

I hope you'll enjoy it here!

@pluralistic

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@jacadamia @pluralistic

Welcome to public social media

[alexblock@ottawa.place]

@jacadamia @pluralistic Welcome from Canada!

[maksu@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jacadamia oh cool hi!! i saw know you from your blender video!!

[jacadamia@mastodon.social]

@maksu oh neat! I actually just put out my first big 3d animation last week! just posted it here too :3

[danno48@mastodon.social]

@jacadamia @pluralistic Bonjour . You're Welcome

[bookworks@c.im]

@jacadamia @pluralistic So you did! Welcome. . I’m reading it now. But I’m a Novemberist.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@jacadamia @pluralistic

welcome!

[jozeldenrust@social.sdfeu.org]

@jacadamia

Hi and welcome!

A lot of people who are new to the Fediverse find the initial experience rather sparse, which might turn them off, and that's not entirely unreasonable.

It helps to follow a lot of accounts, but slightly less obvious is that you can follow #HashTags as well. That will populate your feed with any post that uses any of the hash tags you follow, and is a great way to discover people who post about things you care about.

#SelfReferentialHashTags

[stevefoerster@social.vivaldi.net]

@jacadamia @pluralistic Welcome! The best thing for new people to do is just follow anyone who says anything even remotely interesting at first. You can always unfollow again later if it was a fluke.

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@jacadamia @pluralistic welcome. Just follow a few hashtags for things you're interested in (or even don't know anything about). No algorithm here - people only see what their friends boost in chronological order. Boost anything you want others to see, thumbs up to say a thank you to the person who posted it. Block the occasional idiot (there aren't many) and mute the ones who post too much for you.