The third in our blog post series is by @haubles - sharing our work and ideas around how to grow and nurture the community, for everyone. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/mastodon-is-for-the-people/
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> We’re getting off Discord: Join us on Zulip
lol, I was not aware that you were on Discord. Going away from it is a good move.
Maybe you could also set up a Zulip-Matrix bridge, so that the people from the Matrix federation can contribute to the conversation.
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/zulip/
https://zulip.com/integrations/matrix
Not at all! I love @FediTips, I boost their posts and send links to their work often. Our Help Centre is specifically geared towards Mastodon.social users, and the #fediquette guide is intended as a quick primer to help people get up to speed on our cultural norms.
When it comes to getting the word out about the #Fediverse, and educating people about how to have a good time here, I generally take the attitude more better!
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Yeah, to make clear, Hannah has been great at responding to queries and listening patiently to criticism! I think that comes through in this thread for example?
And yes it's good to have more than one source of tech support. I encourage people to do their own support sites and/or use my text as a basis if they want to as it's available under CC-By-SA. I don't want to end up as a single point of failure on a site encouraging decentralisation 🙂
@haubles I don't want to criticize your work, but I think this approach is very much Fediverse-thinking. But most people from large platforms are not techies, speak a different language, and are looking for specific centralised help quickly. Otherwise, they'll leave again.
To be honest, without the Feditips guide, I would have given up soon. What I found on Mastodon pages, was too much specialised jargon, too complicated. I wanted a quick start in an alternative
@haubles to Twitter, not studies in higher science of decentralisation. 😉 I'm exaggerating (I was on Mastodon already in the beginnings, had left then, came back), but that's how it is for most people who test if they stay here.
* with the first login, just a button.
I don't mind if you critique my work! Your feedback makes the work better. I'm listening to everything you all are sharing with me, and we'll update what we've done and use it to help shape what comes next.
I'm in some meetings right now, but I'll respond more fully in a bit when I'm free.
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@haubles Thank you! 😊 And take all the time you need!
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really appreciate this focus on community over growth metrics. the fediverse works because people actually want to be here, not because an algorithm trapped them