Welcome all!

What is Tucson.Social?

Check out: https://whatis.tucson.social

Prefer the TL;DR? Here ya go!

Tucson.social is a local gateway to the Fediverse, a new type of social media network. It allows you to:

• Connect with local communities
• Follow users across different platforms (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and more)
• Access everything in one place

Our goals are to:

1. Reflect our local community
2. Provide accountable leadership
3. Respect your attention (with opt-in, local-focused ads in the future)
4. Foster civic engagement by highlighting local issues

We’re starting with social media and plan to add more services, like Tucson.chat, as we grow.

Join us to experience a community-focused approach to social media.

Registering / Signing Up

Please register your user to make posts and comments. You can find that in the top right of your browser window under “Sign Up”.

Signing up will send an email to the address you gave up and you’ll be required to verify with that link prior to posting. Be sure to check your spam folder! Since tucson.social is a new kid on the block, we have to garner some trust from the different mail providers before our emails don’t get auto-spammed.

IMPORTANT!!

Make sure you keep “undetermined” language selected in your settings, but also select English, or Español in order to see ALL the content posted here.

If you’re having trouble, remember to hold down the “ctrl” key when you click on each entry. (We’re working on making it easier)

Rules

Currently NSFW Content is not allowed, anyone found posting that content will be permanently banned.

Outside of that, you are free to make communities, post pictures of sunsets, gripe about neighbors and anything else that you’d want to do on a social site.

Please be respectful to one another and follow the same rules that you would be subject to in /r/Tucson while we make a formal community agreement and site terms of service.

How to Find and Subscribe to Communities:

There’s a couple of simple ways to find communities.

1. To browse communities that others in tucson.social are already subscribed to, tap the “Communities” tab at the top of the page and choose the “All” scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through tucson.social.

2. To browse communities across all instances in the fediverse, visit https://lemmyverse.net/communities . Tapping on the community’s name will open it, but probably not through tucson.social (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps:

   a. Copy the community’s URL or remote name. You can use the copy button next to the community name, you can open the community outside tucson.social and copy the URL from your address bar, or you can open the community outside your instance and copy the remote name (which will look like [email protected]) from the sidebar.

   b. Tap on the “🔍 Search” button in the upper toolbar here on tucson.social.

   c. Make sure that you have chosen “All” for each of the four filters: “Type”, “Scope”, “Community”, and “Creator”.

   d. Paste the community’s URL or remote name into the search field and tap “Search”.

   e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing “Scope” to “Local”. If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again.

   f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in tucson.social.

Once a community is open in tucson.social, subscribe to it by tapping on the “Subscribe” button at the top of the sidebar. It will then appear in the “Subscribed” section of your “Communities” tab, and its posts will show on your home feeds.

Can’t find a community you’re looking for? If your instance allows it, you can create the community yourself by tapping “Create Community” in the upper toolbar.

How to create a new community

Click “Create Community” above and fill out the form!

When creating a community, you will be made moderator of that community.

All Communities at tucson.social must:

1. Be locally focused
2. Be legal
3. Not have NSFW Content (for now)
4. Not engage in hate speech, harassment, or other bad behavior.

One More Thing.

Think of tucson.social as a new frontier, there are going to be some weird things that happen, when they do feel free to email me at [email protected] and I’ll do my best to look into your issue and follow up. Try to be understanding in these early phases and keep us in your bookmarks while we try to grow something from nothing!