i think the idea with channels is that a single account could have multiple channels, for different topics or what have you. but havnt looked into it.
here are a couple more scanlines users and friends who havent been mentioned here yet.
i think @andrei_jay will be joining http://autonomous.zone soon as well.
if anyone else wants to join that server, let me know – i helped @wakest spin it up and it is very open to any scanlines peoples.
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yeah i just signed up today!
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i have had the account @bobby_pharaoh@mastodon.social for 3 years but have actually never used mastodon even once i just thought i may want to save my handle there
i don’t know anything about it. or even how to use it, but i’m curious to see what is up
literally what is mastodon
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mastodon is a federated & decentralized social network. which means that instead of all servers being owned and controlled by a single company, there are lots of smaller servers that are all set up to pass data to each other. so you can “follow” and “like” people’s posts even if you aren’t on the same server.
as an illustrative example, this forum is running discourse on our own server. if discourse was federated, we’d be able to follow other servers from this one and then posts from other forums would show up in our feeds on here. it’s not the greatest example because you can’t really follow individual users, but there has been some talk of integrating discourse with the fediverse in some way.
the advantages are, instead of having to have a giant company that needs to support its server costs through advertising and data exploitation, there can be a lot of smaller low cost servers that are supported by the community, so there is no need for them to be commercialized. it also makes it much harder for the whole platform to go down because the likelihood that all of the servers will stop working at once is much lower. the current drawbacks are that it can be a little confusing to newcomers to sort out what all of this means and how to use it, but it’s getting better all the time as there are a lot of people working on the projects. so mastodon is just one of the platforms in the fediverse, peertube is another, and because they are all federated, people on mastodon can follow our peertube accounts, etc …
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things that we’ve been doing on Mastodon and results they’ve been leading to. some are very obvious but seem to be more effective compared to, say, Twitter:
- posting pics and videos of our works with #mastoart hashtag → interest / feedback from strangers who like art
- following users who post their visual creations, asking them to reuse / remix their works → positive reactions, new visual material to play with
- posting open calls to collaborations and asking this account (Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: (@Curator@mastodon.art) - Mastodon.ART) to amplify those posts > more visibility without spamming anyone who’s not interested
- from the official guide…“post a short #introduction giving some information about yourself and what your interests are and what you’ll be talking about on Mastodon. That’s also a great hashtag to search, you’ll find lots of other people new to the network and many will care about the things you do” (we actually forgot to do this ourselves. we’ll do it soon)
- attaching many hashtags to our posts → someone will spot them and follow you
- announcing our livestreamings → we gained some audience
the technical limitations on the size of videos one can upload are a bit strict (40MB by default). maybe some instances have much looser limits but we haven’t been able to search for them on this basis. on the other hand, one can simply upload somewhere else (e.g. videos.scanlines.xyz) and then embed the video.
another criterion one may care about (or not): how welcome NSFW content is on a given instance. some ones are sex-friendly, other ones are not as they prioritize a safe experience for everybody. most of them ask their users to properly mark sensitive content (which includes non-sexual topics that can affect other people). this seems to reflect the Mastodon decentralized attitude that goes together with having many different communities of like-minded people with their own rules.
some tools/pages that allegedly help you choose your native instance. some of them are out of date, some are up to date but didn’t help us that much…
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Hey,
we’re on Mastodon, too. If anyone wants to connect: @hintt@sonomu.club
This is pretty interesting, but I have not yet found where and how to do this. Could you point me in the right direction? 
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it hasn’t been effectively implemented in the web version yet, the closest thing is going to (instance.url)/public
however on some of the mobile apps you are able to “add” servers without actually logging in. i know this is possible on “toot!”, maybe @wakest can confirm any others.
i find i’ve been using this less as i’ve been following more people on different servers, the “federated” timeline on my home instance pretty much gets everything.
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Thanks a lot! I was looking around on the github and found many requests for this feature but nothing about if some1 was actually working on it.
But using XYZ/public will give you the federated timeline of that instance, right? I guess there’s no way to have a look at the local timeline, is there? I mean it kinda makes sense 
the public timeline is configurable. for example post.lurk.org has theirs set to the local timeline - but i think it’s set to federated by default.
Thanks! So much to learn!
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Both Toot! and Metatext on iOS support this feature. If you want to look at a little selection of recent posts by an instance on a desktop browser there is Unmung, tho its a bit barebones. I think there are other apps that support this feature but I can’t think of them at the moment.
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Thanks again! Will see if there’s something for android that supports this
I just came across this new project to list “creators” using the fediverse (Peertube! Mastodon! Etc) and I just added my Glitch curation project I have had for a few years.
Not vary interested in the artists currently listed here but it might be a cool place for folks here to list their accounts to get a little exposure. Its indeed a bit hard to find eachother in the fediverse now so its cool to see people trying to tackle this problem from different angles.
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sounds like a cool idea - seems like the link is broken now tho ?
It may have been moved to fedisearch.xyz and then possibly discontinued. I’m not optimistic about it after seeing how this other project by the same person has been designed.
One of the people behind a similar project (Trunk for the Fediverse) had told me he was available to create a “Video art” list. However they require 5-6 active users to create such a list. @cyberboy666 @palomakop and @Kandid have already given me their OK so if you (@wakest) and another user (@andrei_jay? hintt?) are also OK with this I’ll contact the Trunk admins and ask for us to be included.
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Yeah sorry after I posted about that here the project seemed to sort of fall apart. I would like to invite more folks to come use the Mastodon instance me and @palomakop set up at https://autonomous.zone, if anyone sees this and wants to check out the fediverse more please feel free to reply and I will send you an invite to our instance. We already have a number of scanlines folks over there but I feel like we need another 5 or 10 people to be active to make it feel like a community.
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small angry update:
since our last post we kept being active on Mastodon, we posted more than 1,000 times (often time-consuming, long informative posts, usually including pictures with a written description) and we established and nurtured new relationships with strangers.
too bad we just got fucked over by the DIY, decentralized, autonomous nature of Mastodon as the small instance we had joined will soon shut down.
you can export your data and migrate your content? yes.
do we fucking care, since all the effort put into posting is gone? nope.