hate matthew mullenwanker? you should join the fediverse, NOW!
the fediverse is totally awesome. it's a magical system, sort of like email, meaning anyone on different websites can talk to each other, seamlessly! (usually seamlessly. sort of. kinda.)
there are a ton of awesome websites (known as instances) you can join! if you don't like one, that's fine, because the magic of the fediverse allows you to follow people on all the other ones!
some of my favourite are:
wafrn (short for "we allow female representing nipples") made by our own @gabbomanestamuyloco - it's a tumblr-like social media written in angular. it supports tags with spaces and symbols like tumblr does.
transfem.social (an instance of sharkey, hosted by transfem.org) - it's more like twitter, but so much better! it allows advanced post formatting allowing for animations and custom emojis and even more! it also has emoji reactions on it.
goblin.band - another tumblr-like fedi instance, based on firefish, so it's similar to transfem.social, but it has traditional tumblr features such as notes and reblogging. i think it also has tags with spaces but i'm not fully sure since i've never used it.
wet-dry world - an instance of mastodon, running on a modified software called chuckya. it has emoji reactions too, and it has a cleaner ui theme made by freeplay (but the old one can be turned on in settings). they also have tim sweeney from epic games, and steam from steam (not really)
(there is also the software akkoma, but i don't know any good instances of it, sorry! >w<)
first, once you've set up your profile, you should make a post using #introduction as a hashtag. just say a little about yourself and what you like. you should also mention that you come from tumblr, people are really nice to tumblr users on fedi.
also, you should understand fedi is different to tumblr. you should do stuff like put alt text on images, and use content warnings on your posts.
next, you should follow some cool people! here are a list of some i know:
@[email protected] is a shitposter (and really nice person :3) with lots of interesting history
@[email protected] is my bestie and she would really appreciate more followers i think :3
there are lots of other cool people you will see quickly once you start interacting with people :3
maybe this is just me, but after i joined fedi i started noticing a lot more "mastodon" or fedi links on peoples' websites, so i found a lot of cool accounts that way. keep an eye out!
i hope you have fun with your new knowledge about the other places out there, just a few clicks away. :3
also this is my first long tumblr post sorry if it's bad >w<