David Philipe Gil @davidpgil@librem.one

mastodon is such a cozy platform, it's truly a mental health improvement from twitter

Tom Jennings reverse engineered the IBM PC ROM, bringing about an era of interoperability and competition in hardware. Take a look at his personal, annotated copy of the IBM PC Technical Reference manual. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ibm-pc-compatible-how-adversarial-interoperability-saved-pcs-monopolization

We've been seeing a surge in the number of new account registrations in the last couple of days. This is fantastic! Welcome, everyone!

If you're new, why not make a post about yourself and tag it #introductions? (Also, where are you all coming from? I'm curious! ☺️ )

Current •ARTists, if you see a newbie, reach out and say hi if you can! Let's show them a warm Mastodon welcome.

Hi I’m witchy! I just moved here from twitter and thought I might as well start posting! I’ll start with the art I am currently using as my header, this character is named Lotte!! #introductions

I’m still not sure how this site works completely but here’s some of my work #introductions #digitalillustration #traditionalillustration #oc #originalcharacter #portrait #creative #art #characterdesign #fanart

This rules. DIY computer-controlled loom. (And it's open source!) https://retrotechjournal.com/2019/06/17/making-a-diy-computer-controlled-loom/

I'm going to start a thread of quick #MastoTips for new users. Apologies for any hiccoughs, these toots aren't planned, so they may seem a little haphazard.

First of all: Welcome to Mastodon! If you're coming from Twitter you'll find some things very similar. Mastodon is a microblogging platform for sharing thoughts, photos, music, video, etc.

Posts on Mastodon are affectionately called "toots". You can laugh, it's OK. We found it funny too when we first joined.

When you've added an image to your post you have a few more options.

The most visible is the option to "Mark Media As Sensitive"; this will hide your image under an overlay, just like a CW. This won't hide your text, but it will allow people to opt-in to viewing an image for whatever reason. (We require this on •ART for nudity, blood/gore, etc. See our CoC for more on what we allow info: https://mastodon.art/about/more)

If you mouse-over the thumbnail of your image you'll see more options: "Delete" (self-explanatory!) and "Crop".

Crop doesn't actually alter your image; it just changes where the focus of the thumbnail is when viewed on the timeline. That way you can choose to have it focus on the face rather than on the, um… naughty bits. 😳

You also have the option of adding an image description. Please do this if you can! It goes a long way to making Mastodon more accessible for folks with screen readers.

All right, that's most of what you need to know to get started… but there's still more!

You can make lists of specific users you follow to make customized timelines.

You can boost/retoot (aka. retweet) people, but you can't quote-retoot them; this is by design. Not allowing quote-retoots cuts down on the amount of "dunking" and harassment.

If you see something upsetting or that violates the rules of your instance, please Report it! Your mods need your help to find that stuff and deal with it.

A proper introduction..
I am Michi/Vinny! I love splatoon, pokemon, Yokai watch and ocs!

I love making doodles and drawing both traditonally and digitally.. I am studying to be an animator too!

Is this thing on?

My first toot here omg, I don't know how this works yet

hey hey hey, i'm sancho! transmasc nonbinary gay artist tryin out mastodon. i love painting with bright colors 🌈 🏳️‍🌈
#introduction #mastoart #creativetoots

So many new users posting amazing art today and I feel so alive welcome everyone

#introduction

Hewwo, I'm 22RII (Totorii)! ❤️
I mostly draw a lot of fantasy-based arts & characters, concepts and designs. I also do little side projects such as visual novels, RPGs and comics!

With this first post, I'd like to share my favourite art piece I redrew from 2014! Lady Weiss & General Pie!

Hey there! I'm Yen-Mi, illustrator! I love drawing #VOCALOID #UTAU and related stuff!

I also love games like #warcraft and #overwatch
nice to meet you all!

Damn it's been ages since I used this site

time to make up for it, hello!

Do people still use masto? 🙈

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