TL;DR: There are no ushers on Mastodon. There's no one paid to show you to your seat, no one whose job it is to ease you into comfort and remove friction.
Followgraph for Mastodon
Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.
It’s not you. It’s me. (Taking a break from Mastodon)
I'm walking away from Mastodon for a bit. Here's why.
Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
Enable Mastodon Apps Plugin — WordPress.com
Despite Mastodon implying that you would use this plugin for engaging on Mastodon (when you have enabled it for that, see below), the plugin is useful when installed on a plain WordPress.
How Does Mastodon Work? - Kev Quirk
I’ve spoken about Mastodon numerous times on this blog. It is the social media platform I use more than any other, but for a new user it can be confusing because it doesn’t work like other social media sites.
Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch | CodeSections
The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.
Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552
There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...
Mastodon and the Fediverse is too noisy. Why?
Mastodon and most Fediverse platforms may be better than traditional social networks at interoperability but they don’t do much about other issues. In fact, they largely copy these issues straight from the social media giants. Most Fediverse platforms, including Mastodon, publicly display follower counts, like (favorite) counts, and share
Mastotags - Hashtag Finder for Mastodon
Are there any other guides to Mastodon and the Fediverse?
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
Mastodon is for the people
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
So uh, apparently $288/year is not enough to run a Mastodon service for ~3 users, and this is a known issue (masto.host/mastodon-content-retention-se…) with no solution (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions…!
Loooooool no fucking wayy 😂 🍿 #wsocial mastodon.social/@Gargron/116929536753794512
