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An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (www.staygrounded.online)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think this is the way we should communicate, when presented with the question on how to get on Mastodon:

Copy paste from the link:

How do I use Mastodon?

Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.

Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)

Follow people, and get posting.

Why do tech journalists say it’s too confusing to catch on?

I have no fucking idea.

EDIT for clarification, don't take this too seriously:

This “guide” is a bit of a joke made out of frustration. If you actually want to know more, including why I feel it has potential to free us from the dystopian hellscape that is modern social media, here is the “real” guide to Mastodon. It still uses simple language (and has lots of pictures!):

Please share widely

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, it looks like Fedilab is a mobile app only.

Also, I've installed it on Android and the default does not show the OP above with replies grouped below.

Looking at its settings, maybe one might affect completely missing OPs, "Remote Conversations". I've enabled it and will see how it goes.

I can't find any setting to make it show replies grouped below the OP.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Correct, it is mobile only. Unfortunately, I think I must be misunderstanding what you're saying about the OP stuff. This is my view, the way I think about it at least, these are all "OPs", ones with a plus sign next to the leftward arrow have comments.

And then if I tap, I get the op with its comments underneath it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for explaining that, now I can eventually see the OP.

I want more like the second picture by default (although I wish the tap would take me direct to the OP instead of to the reply and then I have to scroll up).

I don't want to see a main feed full of replies I don't understand because there's no context and have to decide whether it's worth tapping and scrolling up dozens (hundreds?) of times a day to find out what it's about.

I want by default to see the OP with replies underneath (perhaps the replies collapsed or collapsible). Then I can decide based on the OP, not guess by the reply, if I want to read through that thread or scroll past to the next.

Maybe it's cuz I'm new and all the content is new. Once I'm in, perhaps I'll want to see unaccompanied replies. But for now, I want to see OPs first, then replies once I've read the OP.

this post was submitted on 21 May 2025

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