Hey new people!
A guide to some Fediverse terms:
Toot = Post (named after the Mastodon mascot, in theory)
Favourite = Like (there's a separate Bookmark function if you really want to keep track of posts)
Boost = Re-Tweet, shares a post with your followers
Instance = Server = The site you signed up on, each server is independent
Birdsite = Hellsite = Twitter
Fediverse = This place you're on right now, reading this. Mastodon is one kind of server on here, but there are many other types.
@feditips new wave of migration?
Seen a lot of new people recently, so thought would be a good idea to get them up to speed on weird words they've seen.
Looks like Reddit's implosion and various other factors have contributed.
@feditips @MrClon I signed up in November when I expected Twitter to implode. Then it didn’t. I continued using Twitter and didn’t log in to Mastodon. I got email warning me my account would be closed if I didn’t log on. So I did. Then I got another email saying I hadn’t logged in since November and my account would be closed. So I logged in again. This time I’m trying to make really sure it knows I logged in.
I suspect there are many of us hitting that 7 month mark and getting similar emails.
Ahaa... thanks for that, could well be explanation! I thought it was just Reddit, but some newbies had nothing to do with Reddit.