"Oh, ha, you have been away! .lol closed down, it was just one guy running it and the first twitter influx got too much for him to handle."
Ah ok so I gotta rejoin under another instance. Will look to doing this. Any recommendations?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 July 2023 10:52 (nine months ago) link
mas.to has been smooth sailing the whole time.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 July 2023 11:09 (nine months ago) link
Thanks, will look
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 July 2023 11:25 (nine months ago) link
Done. That's a smoking fast server!! So I think I was really unlucky last time. We'll see.
Actually want to post there
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 July 2023 17:32 (nine months ago) link
I am @✧✧@lgbt✧✧✧.sp✧✧✧ if anyone wants to follow my sporadic posts about music and nonsense (including far too many posts about old Eurovisions, I apologise).
― emil.y, Monday, 3 July 2023 18:33 (nine months ago) link
Argh, forgot about the redactions - EK is the first bit. lgbtqia.space is the second bit.
― emil.y, Monday, 3 July 2023 18:34 (nine months ago) link
We're following each other there, I think?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 July 2023 18:56 (nine months ago) link
Yep, we are.
― emil.y, Monday, 3 July 2023 19:06 (nine months ago) link
is there a way to find bands easy on this thing
― nxd, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 18:44 (nine months ago) link
Following this on Mastodon.
Prime Numbers bot won't be tweeting anymore due to Twitter's API and policy changes. The bot lost API access a few days ago, and won't be coming back, but it lives on in a few different places:web/rss: https://t.co/ujQjfo0AMAmastodon: https://t.co/FJhv5cV0PJ— Prime Numbers (@_primes_) July 5, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:47 (nine months ago) link
currently relearning the process of finding people and adding them to a list i have set up : not the easiest of processes to say the least.
― mark e, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 11:56 (nine months ago) link
If they're on there, you should be able to search for the name of the band and unless they've given themselves a comedy username they'll come up. I don't think bands make themselves accounts there as a matter of course, though, so you might not have much luck unless you're sure they're there already. You also can't search for text within posts so you can't just look for any reference to the band (unless it's a hashtag).
If you're just looking for bands who are on there and to maybe discover something new, there are two options:
1) browse the music servers from joinmastodon.org/servers. See if there's anything you like the look of and then browse their local timeline. For example, https://synthwave.social/public/local.
2) search for hashtags, like #DIY or #ElectronicMusic or #BlackMetal or whatever. You can follow those hashtags to get new posts about them straight in your feed and keep an eye on anyone new posting about the topic.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:53 (nine months ago) link
back into the swing of things now.however, i clearly need to use hashtags more.
― mark e, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 20:41 (nine months ago) link
Can someone familiar with the "fediverse" answer a basic question? (I've used Mastodon a little while, but still don't understand some of the underpinnnings.) When it comes to these other platforms that use ActivityPub to talk to each other... how do they actually interact? Like, when I search for a hashtag on Mastodon, should I also theoretically be seeing posts using that hashtag on "Akkoma" and all the others? Or is there more to it? Thx
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:01 (five months ago) link