Turns out Mastodon is easy, actually?

[erinptah]

You know, all the buzz about “Mastodon is so hard and weird and confusing” had me intimidated for a while, but when I finally took the plunge, it went like this:

• Open the account of someone I followed — someone with a big following, and non-terrible political opinions — who moved to Mastodon
• Sign up for a new account on the same instance as them
• Install the Tusky app on my phone, and sign in there too
• Follow the accounts of everyone I could find who moved

…and that was it? It’s been smooth sailing ever since.

Not as buzzing with activity as Twitter, but I followed some cool people who fully moved over, and they RT fun things into my feed, and it’s just…good? It’s not a place I grudgingly check out of anti-Twitter political obligation, it’s a place I enjoy checking, because it has posts I like seeing.

(Probably helps that the “snarking on crypto” community is strong over there! My more traditional fandoms don’t have much of a presence…though I’m following the hashtags, just in case…but let’s face it, dunking on blockchain is basically a fandom in its own right.)

Follow me at @ErinPtah@universeodon.com to get my favorites RT’d into your own feed. And if you have an account — even if you’re not using it much (yet?) — drop the link here, I’ll give you a follow.