Cassian [main] @cassolotl@eldritch.cafe
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Hello!

I'm Cassian, I'm nonbinary (they/them) and I live in Wales. I mostly post about TV I'm watching, surveys I'm interested in, being neurodivergent, environment stuff, things I'm making, and spontaneous grumpy rants of little consequence.

I do the @gendercensus annually.

I first tried the Fediverse over 10 years ago, but didn't really get ensconced until the first wave of Mastodon in 2016.

Cassian [main] @cassolotl@eldritch.cafe
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My top tip for getting into Mastodon is:

1) Make a post that says "hi, I'm interested in..." followed by like 10 hashtags about your interests.

2) Click and follow all the hashtags in your post.

3) People will boost your post and it'll go further because of the hashtags, due to the nature of the fediverse. Follow all the people who boost you; you can unfollow later if it's too many people.

Diagram source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

Title: What makes up each timeline? Text: This flow chart might help explain. To look at it from the other direction: Your public toots will always be in your instance's local timeline. If even one person from example.instance follows you, your public toots will be visible in the federated timeline for everyone on example.instance. (Replies don't make it into the public or federated timelines.) Flow chart: Start: Public toot by @Foo. Am I following @Foo? Yes: Toot shows in Home timeline. No: Is @Foo on my instance? Yes: Toot shows in Local timeline. No: Does someone on my instance follow @Foo? Yes: Toot shows in Federated timeline. No: Did someone on my instance boost @Foo's toot or search for it with its URL? Yes: Toot shows in Federated timeline. No: @Foo's toot never reaches my instance. If you choose "unlisted" instead of "public", your toots will be seen by followers and be visible on your profile but they won't appear in the timelines.
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