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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

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PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

opens site

gets greeted by subscribe pop-up and cookie banner

closes site

[–] otter 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's more of a substack issue

The content of the guide (the real guide linked below) is pretty good :)

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/a-simple-guide-to-mastodon-and-the

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can just click "no thanks" to the subscription box, but I've copy-pasted the full guide (short version) here for you:

  1. Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.

  2. Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)

  3. Follow people, and get posting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Of all the sites with popups, this site is one of the least annoying.

The most annoying is video popups. Those get ublocked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

if you power through that then next stop is that this is not the full article and need to click "Read full story"