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Kicking things off, I thought it would be worth highlighting some bits of the new user onboarding experience with Sharkey.

The onboarding process really seeks to help introduce people new to our fedi platforms, and is also happy to skip the hand-holding if you're already familiar with things.

Initially once you've created your account, Sharkey asks you to go through a few basic steps with setting up your profile, including allowing you to upload your profile picture/avatar/icon, goes over a couple of quick privacy settings that you can set, it brings up recommended and popular users you may wish to follow, and then asks to enable push notifications.

Once that bit is done, there's a small tutorial that it will guide you through, explaining what a note (post) is, explaining what the icons mean. It show you how to put a reaction on to a note, explains the various timelines, how to post a note, and how to mark an image as sensitive (also, Sharkey defaults to reminding users about adding alt text on photos as part of normal operations).

Basically, if one follows through these items, they should be in a not bad beginning position for getting going and getting something useful out of the fediverse.

@_elena@mastodon.social wrote an excellent blog post about Sharkey here, including the onboarding process: https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/

I actually hope to keep these posts about Sharkey pretty short and covering single and specific topics. The next one will be shorter.

I hope this is useful and enjoyable! Come check Sharkey out here at https://humanwords.cc or have a look at other instances via https://sharkey.fediverse.observer/list

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