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I have signed up for a Mastodon account on the https://im-in.space/ instance. The "I'm in space" name seemed nicely amusing to me, and the site has a cute spinning spaceship gif too. More importantly, the instance still had open sign-ups available, which many of the other smaller instances I looked at didn't, due to spam or capacity issues.
I looked up the name before signing up, so I did realize that it (and the spaceship gif) are actually references to Portal 2, even though I've never played the game.
Trying to use Mastodon, I'm feeling sort of like I did when I started using Facebook. I've never had a Twitter account, so I'm a newbie in terms of micro-blogging sites too. Some things aren't very intuitive to me. Some things which I feel one surely ought to be able to customize, apparently can't be. Im-in.space is a GlitchSoc instance, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference to these things or not.
There's a page which shows the stuff I've posted: https://im-in.space/@darkoshi
There's a "dashboard"-style page: https://im-in.space/web/getting-started
with 4 columns:
1st column has a text box where I can post a message.
2nd column shows notifications
3rd column shows a feed of posts from the people I've followed.
4th column shows navigation options.
But what if I want the text box for writing posts to be larger, rather than in that narrow column?
What if I want to view the posts of the people I've followed on it's own page (like DW's reading page), rather than having it squeezed into less than 25% the width of my browser?
The only way I've seen to do that is to switch the layout to mobile view... which actually doesn't look that bad now. So, guess this is no longer an issue for me.
When I tried the mobile view on my laptop before, it looked different (dunno why), awful. Now it's ok, but I still wish the text would be centered, and take up say, 50 to 75% of the browser width (more like my DW page) rather than being left-adjusted on the page. And I don't see a way to customize the page colors.
The other thing that has been confusing me is how protected posts are handled between instances.
When I view my feed (on my instance), it includes the protected entries posted by the people I've followed on another instance. When I view their page (on their instance), it doesn't show the protected posts. That makes sense in retrospect, as the other site doesn't know who I am, as I'm logged into my instance, not their instance.
But there are some posts that I see when viewing the posts on the other instance, which I don't see in my feed. The reply button only shows up on posts in my feed, not when viewing the page on the other instance. So I can't reply to those mystery posts.
I think it has something to do with whether the entry was posted public vs unlisted vs followers-only, but I'm not sure. (I was thinking there was a way to post only to one's own instance? Maybe then it doesn't go out to followers on other instances?) Maybe it's a bug, but I'm not sure.
I looked up the name before signing up, so I did realize that it (and the spaceship gif) are actually references to Portal 2, even though I've never played the game.
Trying to use Mastodon, I'm feeling sort of like I did when I started using Facebook. I've never had a Twitter account, so I'm a newbie in terms of micro-blogging sites too. Some things aren't very intuitive to me. Some things which I feel one surely ought to be able to customize, apparently can't be. Im-in.space is a GlitchSoc instance, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference to these things or not.
There's a page which shows the stuff I've posted: https://im-in.space/@darkoshi
There's a "dashboard"-style page: https://im-in.space/web/getting-started
with 4 columns:
1st column has a text box where I can post a message.
2nd column shows notifications
3rd column shows a feed of posts from the people I've followed.
4th column shows navigation options.
But what if I want the text box for writing posts to be larger, rather than in that narrow column?
What if I want to view the posts of the people I've followed on it's own page (like DW's reading page), rather than having it squeezed into less than 25% the width of my browser?
The only way I've seen to do that is to switch the layout to mobile view... which actually doesn't look that bad now. So, guess this is no longer an issue for me.
When I tried the mobile view on my laptop before, it looked different (dunno why), awful. Now it's ok, but I still wish the text would be centered, and take up say, 50 to 75% of the browser width (more like my DW page) rather than being left-adjusted on the page. And I don't see a way to customize the page colors.
The other thing that has been confusing me is how protected posts are handled between instances.
When I view my feed (on my instance), it includes the protected entries posted by the people I've followed on another instance. When I view their page (on their instance), it doesn't show the protected posts. That makes sense in retrospect, as the other site doesn't know who I am, as I'm logged into my instance, not their instance.
But there are some posts that I see when viewing the posts on the other instance, which I don't see in my feed. The reply button only shows up on posts in my feed, not when viewing the page on the other instance. So I can't reply to those mystery posts.
I think it has something to do with whether the entry was posted public vs unlisted vs followers-only, but I'm not sure. (I was thinking there was a way to post only to one's own instance? Maybe then it doesn't go out to followers on other instances?) Maybe it's a bug, but I'm not sure.