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layout: "post"
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title: "FAQ for newcomers"
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date: 2018-02-15
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tags:
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- fediverse
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preview: "this is a stub for an article. Anyone welcome to contribute"
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url: "/en/post/FAQ-for-newcomers"
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lang: en
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This article is a stub. You can help the Fediverse wiki by expanding it. Anyone welcome to contribute.
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It may be a question-answer format covering basic things, like:
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- what federated social networks mean
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- where to register
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- tips for choosing a server. May be different for each network: in diaspora one might pay attention to whether a pod uses Camo proxy or not, if it uses the relay, whether it has a Tor .onion address; in Mastodon one can choose an instance by theme, by number of other instances it's connected to... etc. In any network important factors for choosing a pod are pod uptime and time being online. Most of these things are reflected in different server lists.
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...May be better link to one of already existing FAQs out there instead of writing a new one. Needs discussion.
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