I'm joining, but I'm starting from zero
Welcome!
Join Mastodon
The first thing you need is an account on Mastodon*.
You can explore this
list of available servers,
or you can
just join the flagship server.
Maybe you should just join the flagship server.
It's like old Twitter: you'll see short posts from the
accounts you follow in reverse chronological order. It's
great.
Follow the dj
Then you need to follow @dj@social.iaysco.club.
Near the top of the leftmost column in the Mastodon interface is
a search box.
Enter @dj@social.iaysco.club into the search box
and click "Go to profile @dj@social.iaysco.club".
Then all the way to the right you'll see the profile
for @dj@social.iaysco.club. Click the "Follow"
button.
Then tell Chris!
Chris has to know you followed so he can tell the dj that
you're cool. Not just everybody can interact with the dj. So
let Chris know and pretty soon you'll get a private message
from the dj welcoming you and telling you how to submit songs.
How do I submit songs?
You send a private message to @dj@social.iaysco.club
with:
- a link to a song
- a reason why you want us to check it out
- nothing else!
The content of your message is what the dj quotes when it
picks the song to play.
The dj isn't smart, exactly, so put the song link
first and then the why. (The dj treats the first [or only]
link as the "song", so make it easy: put it first.)
Your welcome to the club begins with a private message from
@dj@social.iaysco.club. You can submit songs by
replying to that message over and over and over again.
How are songs picked?
First a person is picked. People who haven't been picked in a
while have a greater chance of getting picked. The longer it's
been since you've been picked the greater the chance. But even
the person picked yesterday has a chance. There's no set order
or rotation, but it should be a pretty even spread over time.
Once a person is chosen, one of their songs is picked.
That's all it is.
What happens on Saturdays?
Every Saturday at 9am Eastern there's a "Back-to-back
Flashback" post. It's two previous picks together. Maybe
there's something interesting when the two songs get played
back-to-back. Try it out!
Or maybe you missed a pick and this is a fun way to catch up.