Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Livestreaming people!

Do you want people on Mastodon to be able to follow your livestream and be notified when you go live?

There's a free open source streaming platform called @owncast which is also part of the Fediverse:

➡️ https://owncast.online

You can follow OwnCast streams from Mastodon, and a post will appear in your timeline when they go live.

For example you can follow music accounts like @live or tech & gaming streamers like @Hamish or @hatnix

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OwnCast

Friend spotted

@Stephan

Alright I hope I don’t come off to preachy, so forgive me if it sounds that way.

But, one of the things I struggled with after I moved from twitland about a year ago was changing my twitter-user mindset.

Entering fedi is kinda like entering into a new school.

First, you just gotta get to know the kids in your class. (Your instance.)

Then, you expand and get to know the kids in other grades and other schools. (Other instances.) You figure out who is popular and who is not.

Ultimately, I found (just like in school) that I do not care if I have a lot of followers. I have a handful of people I consider friends and interact with regularly and that has been good enough for me. It’s something I never had on Twitter, reddit, or even Facebook (atleast not in the later years), and it has felt really good to have that homie feel online again.

Everyone on popular social media nowadays are chasing internet points. What we in Public Relations call ‘vanity metrics’.

More followers
More boosts
More exposure

I think most people around here actually shy away from that. It’s not a contest for popularity on fedi. This isn’t really a news platform where the goal is to garner followers, gain popularity, become an influencer and rise to be a cyberpower. Most of us see right through that stuff and I for one don’t care for it.

It’s just social media. for being social. For making friends and meeting new people. Plain and simple.

I am only saying all this because I find that lots of new users think like this:

Follow all the big accounts.Businesses
Admins
Developers
Public figures
Get more followersPost memes
beg for boosts

After a few months of doing this my self, I ended up un-following most of those “big” accounts and changing the way I interacted with fedizens. Now, I stick with the peeps I consider friends, and keep my eyes open to meeting new people who are interesting, friendly, and may challenge my belief system in some way.

I don’t care at all for metrics on here. I just care about my people.

Honestly, that’s what has made fedi so fulfilling for me. Social media is fun again.

On Mastodon the so called "Direct messages" are *actually* messages where the privacy setting is "visable for mentioned users only", i.e. users you "@"'

Now let's follow that to it's logical conclusion shall we… what if you want to talk to someone in private about a third person?

Do NOT "@" the person you want to talk about or guess what… you are talking to them as well!!! 😱

💡 If you write out their username without the first @, e.g "ruari@velocipederider.com" that OK.

#FediTips