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We are the Mastodon social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi'i bweru gan Mastodon!

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So it's been 1 week on Mastodon for me. Things I've learned so far:

Do an post, fill it with hashtags of interests.

Have something in your bio so people can read about you

Follow (& unfollow) liberally

makes posts more visible to others, saves them to your favourites.

Use alt text on images

Use to save threads you want to follow

subjects like politics, sports or common triggers

Replying to yourself creates a

Hashtags are really important as they go across the networks (or 'instances') to connect you to others with the same interests

When using multi-word hashtags, capitalise the individual words to make it more accessible (screen-readers won't read them out otherwise)

In your preferences, enable 'advanced web interface' - it makes it look much clearer for you

I think that's it for now! Thanks for reading. 🙂

@lexicaleigh Camelback?

Yeah, but I'm worried that #LevelUpA5e and #levelupa5e aren't the same because the autocomplete only gives the inaccessible version.

So I suppose this post is me testing it.

Cressida 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌻

@Homebrewandhacking Just tested both those links and they returned the same search results. 🙂