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MrsSnippyPants · 22/01/2020 12:03

From a helpful Spinster @Maat
spinster.xyz/home

I'll post more tips as they become available for anyone who wants to dip a toe in the water.

"I'm sure your members will be fine creating a profile as presumably they did so on Mumsnet. You then go to your home page and click on the 'Spinster' tab at the top. That takes you to the feed for all of us. You can click to follow people (I suspect Mumsnet has this facility too so, again, assume members will find this easy enough). The icons under each post allow you to 'reply', 'share post' and 'like post' in that order. I'm not sure about Mumsnet but, unlike with Twitter, sharing a post doesn't give you the opportunity to share it with a comment of your own.

Once you're following people the tabs at the top of your home page make more sense. 'Home' is for people you're following, 'Spinster' is for everyone on our part of the Fediverse and 'Fediverse' itself is an open forum where you get all sorts of people and different groups, not all of them women-friendly.

Good luck. I'm sure the members will be fine. I can't imagine Spinster being more complicated than Mumsnet."

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EverardDigby · 22/01/2020 12:28

Yeah I've just joined too, not had time to get a hang of it yet but will do.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 22/01/2020 12:26

I've joined Spinster. One thing that I'm a bit unsure about is how many of the monitors are also on there. So I'm a bit circumspect.

Won't be leaving here, though. Too much useful stuff, too many good people.

Spartabix · 22/01/2020 12:21

I also find it easier to find information on Mumsnet. I do wish they would change the rules so that only registered posters could report posts. Allowing anyone in the world (no matter how malicious) to report means there is unecessary pressure from people who have no intention of using the board, but simply want to attack women.

Mayomaynot · 22/01/2020 12:14

I'm over here from Spinster. I hope more of you join us there. But I will say that I hope you all continue to stay on MN too and keep on posting here. MN has a huge reach - way beyond Spinster at the moment - and feminists here can have a much greater impact than on other platforms.

SisyphusRocks · 22/01/2020 12:09

We also don't get banned for knowing biological facts Wink

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