Setting Up a Social.Coop Profile: The Basics

Someone was asking in another thread, and figured it'd be useful to post this more prominently, so it can be edited as the process evolves:

I made this presentation for a Mastodon crash course at my hackerspace as a basic Intro to Mastodon.

Sign up for a profile from browser (either on mobile or desktop) via this link. Once you have an account, install an app (I'm using Tusky, though I've heard there are others than might be better) and authorize it to activate your social.coop profile, then you should be able to use from mobile.

Right now, memberships are not integrated with payments, so we're going by the honor system - the payments are currently done through the Opencollective project. Select recurring payment, and enter your sliding scale point between $1-10 per month. As we scale up, we will eventually need to integrate those two functions, but right now our group's shared purpose is hopefully generating sufficient social capital...