Introduction post!
Hello! My name is Eli, I'm a transmasc butch from Tumblr. I'm slowly poking my way around the Fediverse and I'm looking for an interface that lets me do long-form blogging. Friendica is allegedly good for that, so here I am!
Grad student, certified "Moon Nerd".
Nonbinary butch transmasc. Masculine like a misty mountain forest, queer as in fuck you. Converting to Judaism slowly but surely.
Interests:
Games: #Pathfinder #DnD #DragonAge #DiscoElysium #TheSims #CivilizationIV
TV: #Trigun #StarTrek #OurFlagMeansDeath #YouTubeVideoEssays
Books: #SherlockHolmes #TheExpanse #LordOfTheRings #TheHungerGames #SciFi #Fantasy
Shiri Bailem
in reply to hadeantaiga • • •@hadeantaiga Welcome to the server/fediverse! And welcome as a fellow trans jewish convert!
I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have with Friendica and to help you figure out if it's the right place for you... but if you go somewhere else please link because you definitely have me interested in your introduction!
Also what's your Tumblr, Friendica supports following Tumblr feeds, and this spurred me on to finally setting up the Tumblr addon which allows crossposting to Tumblr (it does require access to your Tumblr to do so, but uses Oauth so doesn't have your password or control over your account, just the ability to post).
hadeantaiga
in reply to Shiri Bailem • •Shiri Bailem
in reply to hadeantaiga • • •@hadeantaiga friendica's upside is connecting to everything that allows it to connect, downside is that it's a little less user friendly.
Followed your tumblr!
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Shiri Bailem
in reply to hadeantaiga • • •Filtered word: nsfw
@hadeantaiga I definitely recommend digging around through the settings because there's alot going on and a lot of decisions made by default that may or may not be what you want.
You can find the social network connectors under Social Networks, I've enabled all that are included in Friendica. If it's an "Export" that means it'll copy your posts to your account on that platform, and Import being it bringing things in to Friendica (Tumblr is both and the Export is controlled by a checkbox, it also lets you specify up to 10 tags to import as well).
Friendica is also cross compatible with OStatus and Diaspora* with no configuration needed (though there's far far fewer users of those protocols, ActivityPub is the big name).
On top of all that, you can also follow RSS feeds.
And when looking at the settings, don't skip over Addons. It's not for you to enable addons but rather miscellaneous settings for addons I have installed (for instance the content filter addon defaults to blocking everything tagged nsfw).
I'm also fond of going to Display Settings, Content/Layout to set "Stay local" which cuts down on the times links send you to another site. There's also your account type, which sets certain behaviors (the default Standard requires you to accept all follow requests, I like Soapbox which lets anyone follow but I have to manually add them to Friends)
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