Wow, okay, hi new #furry friends!!!
1) Holy shit, thank you so much for the super warm reception, I was absolutely not expecting that much of a response!! 💕🥹 Y'all are making my week over here
2) Excuse the boomer moment, but could someone maybe explain to me how people put tags all underneath a post? 👀
And 3) Do y'all have any unspoken rules I should know as a newbie? 👀 Idk, things like the "don't use more than 2 hashtags" on twitter or "hey you should be using feeds" on bluesky, or even just any social etiquette things? :> Sorry if that's an odd question, I'm just autistic and want to make sure I don't accidentally step on any toes if the social rules are different here than on other platforms! 🫶🏻
Anyway, you all seem absolutely lovely, and I'm still confused by how the platform works but I'm also having a great time already!
@alexeven hey welcome! one little tidbit that can take a while to pick up on, is that the character counter on mastodon counts all clickable links as 23 characters regardless of actual length—so link shorteners do nothing! This came about bc a lot of early mastodon users disliked the way most shortening services fund themselves thru tracking & selling user data
if you’ve got any specific questions, just dropping them in a public post like this is great, or you can try checking https://fedi.tips
