Here at FTBS, we tend to focus more on the social and less on the media. From our platform, you have access to a global network of people and information. But, let's face it, screaming into the ether doesn't really help anyone or do anything.
So what becomes important is CONNECTION.
We believe that you have control over who gets access to your attention. You must accept connections from people for their information to show up on your feed. Your feed won't just automatically fill up with stuff.
But, then again, your feed won't just automatically fill up with stuff - stuff you're not interested in or stuff from people who themselves are just screaming into the ether.
Your feed is YOURS.
We give you control.
You have control over your posts and who they go to.
You have control over what posts reach you.
With great power comes great responsibility. But we trust you to use it wisely.
If you're wondering why your feed isn't full the day after you signed up. That's why.
Add some contacts. If you know somebody on Mastodon or another platform like PeerTube, you can add them too!
We even allow you to add RSS feeds from your favorite blogs and news outlets.
Here's some info on getting started:
Where Is Everybody?!?!If you are used to the Big Tech players model of social media - you're used to logging in and quickly having your newsfeed populated with things THEY think you will like.
Things are different around here.
There are no algorithms studying you. There are no electronic sensors watching how long you hover on images, how quickly you scroll through your feed, what you click, like, or share.
This is a social communications platform. It will require a little effort on your part to populate your feed with information you want to read and see.
Here are a couple of hints and tips:
1. Don't sign up alone. Get at least one or two friends that you talk with regularly to sign up with you.
2. Let others know where to find you! You may be surprised to find out that you already have friends who have signed up for accounts on compatible servers!
3. Use RSS Feeds. Get your
FREE UPGRADE and then see
our article about adding RSS Feeds. "Really Simple Sindication," (RSS) is a tool used by many news outlets and blogs to publish their info. With FreeToBe.Social, you don't need to wait until someone shares articles with you, you can tell our servers to go out and get them! Find the RSS web link for your favorite sources and add them to your FreeToBe.Social stream quickly and easily.
4. Ask people you know which alternative social media platforms they are on. If they "toot" on a Mastodon server, or if they upload to a Pixelfed server instead of Instagram, or if they publish on a PeerTube server rather than YouTube, ask them their address and set up a
connection !
5. Ask in your existing social media groups on the "big players" if anyone is using Mastodon, Zap, Hubzilla, or any of the other projects that communicate on
the Federation.
6. Visit other servers on
the Federation and see if there are users that interest you and then
connect with them.