Muso | A social network for music lovers

Muso [pronounced Myoo-zo] was created by Louis Marks and Brian O'Neill as a gathering place for independent musicians, music journalists, radio programmers, music teachers, and fans. Networking for the purpose of advancing quality music is encouraged; our goal is to advance connections within the music business for the benefit of all.

Louis Marks (@Louis@muso.social) is the owner of independent label Ropeadope. Brian O'Neill (@BrianO@muso.social) is a musician/producer/engineer, software developer, teacher, and member of the long-running NYC band and proud Ropeadope artists M'lumbo. Ropeadope is the Ropeadope team posting about their releases and artists.

We encourage all to use as much detail as possible in your profile, and to introduce yourself and state your intent in using the platform. Please abandon expectations from previous social platforms, and step into muso for a new, more intimate and purposeful experience.

We welcome members of the community who wish to grow with us and guide the course of muso — Admins, moderators, developers, community leaders.

Hashtags

Remember to use hashtags when you post ('toot') — that’s how semantic search works here. Mastodon doesn't have full-text search, but you can search for hashtags and indeed you can even follow them. Don't go overboard! A good rule of thumb is that hashtags should make up at most ~10% of a post.

Here are some suggested hashtags:

#introduction #NewMusic #MusicBiz #reviews #AlbumArt #education #unreleased #performing, #gigging #gig, #GigAnnouncement #studio #mastering #recording #engineering #gear Add  music or audio to be more specific and findable, if a little less discoverable.

You can make multi-word hashtags easier to read by using #CamelCase (or #lowerCamelCase), and for greater accessibility Mastodon encourages you to do so (as we do too). Prefer #RecordingMusic to #recordingmusic, #AudioEngineering to #audioengineering.

Hashtags are not case-sensitive, so #RecordingMusic and #recordingmusic are the same hashtag. Using CamelCase is considerate of the reader; like being polite, it's optional.

On Mastodon, a hashtag consists of the '#' character (pronounced "hashtag"), followed by letters, digits, and/or underscore '_'. Examples: #MyHashtag, #the_number_12. Careful: no other separator characters can be part of a hashtag! Thus, #surprise.hashtag.here consists of the hashtag #surprise followed immediately by the text .hashtag.here.

Resources

A good intro to Mastodon — How it works, differences from Twitter, helpful hints, tips und tricks.

Great chart from the above intro — "Which toots can I see? in which timeline?" and by symmetry, "Who can see my toots, and where do they appear?"

https://www.movetodon.org — Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon.

Fedi.Tips — An unofficial guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse, for non-technical people.

"What I know about Mastodon", by a data scientist — Techniques and etiquette, how to and why to: create a thread, create a group chat, follow a hashtag, add alt-text to pic attachments, more.

1. We try to be inclusive, so exclusionary, divisive, aggressive, or consistently obnoxious behavior is unwelcome. Thus, no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism, ageism.
2. Sexually explicit or violent media must be marked as sensitive when posting.
3. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies will be tolerated.
4. No harassment, piling on, ganging up on, or doxxing of other users.
5. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
6. Don’t do anything that’s illegal in the US.