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

Do an #introduction post, fill it with hashtags of interests.

Have something in your bio so people can read about you

Follow (& unfollow) liberally

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

Use alt text on images

Use #bookmark to save threads you want to follow

#CW subjects like politics, sports or common triggers

Replying to yourself creates a #thread

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 and aren't the same because the autocomplete only gives the inaccessible version.

So I suppose this post is me testing it.

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