A (brief) Mastodon Tutorial:

Hi! Welcome to Mastodon! Here's some major things you need to know after your :

Your first instance may not be your permanent instance: Try going to instances.social/ to find the instance that is right for you! I like awoo.space for it's pro-active moderation!

The "CW" button is a content warning. It hides your post behind it. It's considered good behavior to CW politics, NSFW stuff, anything that can be emotionally traumatic, or memes.

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If you click on the three bars in the Home, Local Timeline, or Federated Timeline, you can add a filter to prevent certain posts from even showing up in your feed!

Jerks still show up. Go to your instance's admin to report them. If your instance's admin doesn't do anything about it, go back to instances.social and find a new instance. It can take some time!

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Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!