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-Agenda:
+This is the protocol of a (series of) workshop(s) held by @PaulaToThePeople for Fediverse beginners, especially those who came to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter.
-    Introduction
-    Moderation
-    Does everybody already have an account?
-    What is Mastodon?
-    What is the Fediverse?
-    What is Pixelfed?
-    Questions
-Notes
-    Introduction
+_TOC_
-    Paula joined Fediverse in 2018 and became and an administrator a bit later
-    Proper notes will be shared later on (Thanks so much!!)
-    Moderation
-    Rules for this workshop
-    Don't turn on microphone while someone else is speaking
-    Wait for Paula to invite you to speak
-    Raise your hand (if on browser look for the hand symbol bottom right of screen; or write in the chat you want to speak)
-    Does everybody on the call already have an account?
-    it will help understand if people need help setting up an account
-    @sburall@mastodon.social
-    gaysis@social.agb-web.de
-    very often you need to use the full handle to find a person, just their name might not be enough
      you can search using topics, results can be accounts, hashtags or posts
-    What is Mastodon?
+==What is Mastodon?==
-    it's a free software,
-    has some features the same as Twitter, and some different
-    What does it look like?
-    Use preferences to change how mastodon looks
+Mastodon is a free software mictoblogging project, so similar to Twitter, with some features that are the same and some different features.<br>
+It is decentral/federated and part of the Fediverse (see below).
-    use advanced web-interface to see multiple columns
+When you just created an account you'll see the basic interface with an empty home timeline. You'll have to fill it by following people.<br>
+To follow someone from a different instance you'll probably need to enter their full handle (username@instance.tld) or their profile's url in the search field.<br>
-    If you have too many columns, they won't fit on the screen and you will have to zoom out.
+In the Settings you can change some things about Mastodon's look and feel. For example you can switch to the advanced interface where you can have many columns.<br>
+You can for example search for a hashtag and then pin that column to the screen be clicking in the top right corner.<br>
+If you have too many columns, they won't fit on the screen and you will have to zoom out.
-    you can make a list of people you don't want to miss and they will appear in a column (sorry can't see this happening and so can't quite explain properly)
+You can create lists of people, e.g. people who's posts you don't want to miss, and also pin that list as a column.
-    home timeline is people you follow and people who are boosted by people you follow. But it almost never matters which fediverse server they are on, just need to follow their account
+The home timeline shows posts by accounts you follow and boosts by those accounts. It will look the same no matter if they have a Mastodon account or use a different Fediverse service.<br>
+The local timeline just shows posts by accounts on your server. No boosts.
+The federated timeline shows the whole known Fediverse - known to your server that is. An account is known to your server once it is followed or was ever searched for by someone on your server.
-    There is the local timeline, this shows only posts for people on your server. It is filled when you join the server and you don't need to follow them
+==What is the Fediverse?==
-    federated timeline shows the whole, known fediverse (known to your server - depends which accounts are followed from your server or what was searched from your server)
+Mastodon is just one part of the Fediverse.
-    What is the Fediverse?
+[[File:Fediverse branches.png]]
      mastodon is part of the fediverse