From this local or federated timeline, you can build your own timeline by liking or boosting posts that interest you, or by following interesting users to draw them into your home timeline.

Also, if you post something like "nice to meet you" or "I don't understand...", someone may respond from inside or outside the server.

If you keep posting what you are interested in or what you think about for a while, I think you will get some kind of response, so reply, favorite, boost (retweet), and share the person's usual Check out the posts and follow them if you find them interesting.

At this time, you may be able to connect with a user on a server different from the one you registered with. As the following relationship spreads beyond the server, your posts will also be delivered to other servers, and you will be able to connect with users who are different from the registered server.

If you only use the local timeline of a specific server, you may feel unsatisfactory because the atmosphere of the posts is biased, or the number of posts or the number of people is small.

At this time, if you know the state of other servers, you can find a server that really suits you and move to it, or follow the users of that server to connect with other communities without moving servers.

If you can enjoy both the connection inside the server and the connection with the outside, you will be more satisfied with activities based on Mastodon.

Please find a way to use Mastodon that suits you by enriching your home timeline while sending something, exchanging reactions, and creating connections.

The usage is basically the same as Twitter, but you can specify the range of posts in detail, avoid spoilers, post with cautionary notes, and follow an approval system (you can decide whether to accept or refuse after receiving a follow request. ), but there are differences in terms of functionality, such as being able to make public posts and posts that are only visible to followers at the same time.

Someone has published a guide article, so please look for it.

Please refer to the original document.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

Also, I will post a guide-like content as a reply after this, so please refer to it.

Mastodon is a microblogging and decentralized SNS service in which a large number of servers are interconnected to form a large network, each with its own theme and characteristics, and with its own operators, user groups, rules and functions.

While it can be used like Twitter, it is a service that provides an experience that is difficult to obtain on Twitter.

For one, there is a theme server where people who live in the same neighborhood gather, and people who have a high interest in the field gather there, so you can talk about your interests to your heart's content.

Strangely, you can talk about whatever you like without being reserved, so that ordinary people can understand. You can use up to 500 characters.

One is the local timeline, which is a timeline where all the statements of the users belonging to it are gathered together.

You can look at everyone's posts, post yourself among them, and share the experience of looking at the same thing together, so you can enjoy it from the first day of participation and quickly find people who share your interests.

For one thing, since the service is not intended for profit, in order to display advertisements or make it attractive as an advertising medium, excessive collection and analysis of user information, and directing to make things stand out excessively. No need to.

The timeline is always in chronological order and clutter-free.

You can see if there are replies, but it will be displayed as 0, 1, or 1+. You can tell if you've liked or boosted (retweeted), but that's about it. The number is not known until the details are displayed. It is carefully designed so as not to incite competition or be misled by the volume of voices (number of supporters and virality).

It is a very free space where you can do what you really want to see and what you really want to say.

In addition, since there is no profitable system, the operating expenses and daily operations are covered by the operator / server administrator. We motivation is a strong desire to install and operate the ideal service that we want.

For that reason, the operator also participates as an ordinary user and enjoys it more than anyone else, and it is also characterized by the fact that it is easy to establish a good relationship in which the operator and the user cooperate.

For one thing, it's openly connected to a variety of other services.

Twitter allows you to follow, be followed, and interact with users of other services, just as you can follow and be followed by other users and stay in touch with each other's latest posts.

In addition to other mastodon services, it is possible to connect to various services such as SNS with different mechanisms such as Pleroma and Misskey, video services, blogs, etc., as long as there are users and posts by users.

Such a world in which services are interconnected to form a single network is called a fediverse, as we regard it as a federation universe.

Mastodon, as mentioned above, is a user-oriented service.

In addition, it is an open place that connects to Fediverse while having a locality where everyone can see and talk about the same thing.

Therefore, the key to making good use of it is to act as an independent individual without overly interfering or being influenced by selecting information at your own risk.

Below is my personal opinion, but I will tell you what I think. Please refer to it as one opinion.

A follow-follow relationship does not imply friendship. Build a comfortable timeline where you always follow people whose posts you want to read, unfollow people whose posts you don't want to see, and always see only what you want to see.

Likewise, people who follow you are just people who want to read your posts, not your friends. Like you, they may unfollow you in the process of choosing who to follow, but that doesn't mean much.

Therefore, just because someone follows you, you don't have to follow them to show that you are connected to each other. and decide whether to follow.

Follow-up can be an approval system.