Social media
We update our social media accounts regularly. These are on:
- mastodon: @cwmdumusic@toot.wales
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bluesky: @cwmdumusic.bsky.social
We decided to delete our X/Twitter account at the end of 2024. Many thanks for your support over the years.
Social networks
Mastodon
If you are Music/Arts organization, particularly in Wales why not join us in a growing community via federated social medium Mastodon? This has no adverts and strong encouragment of practises which enhance accessibility (eg there’s a much better level of alt-text than on many other social media platforms). People often find the discourse there less confrontational, more accepting and fun than X.
Mastodon differs from many other social media platforms in that it isn’t controlled by a single company (which may change ownership under you). Instead it’s a federation of instances which can share content. Different instances may be aimed at supporting particular interests, but you can follow creators from any of them. In Wales we benefit from a great instance at toot.wales/tŵt.cymru.
How to join? There is an introduction here, (note you can choose to join the default server mastodon.social or one of many other choices such as the one we use-toot.wales) whose introduction says:
We are the Mastodon social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi’i bweru gan Mastodon!
Explainer: there are many Mastodon server providers (in the same way that there are lots of email providers such as Apple, gmail, Yahoo), but you can follow and communicate with users on these other servers and move to a different server if you desire and keep your content.
If you want to use an app on your phone there are official (free) apps available, alongside a lively 3rd party ecosystem—check these out. For desktop computers try the web site elk.zone.
There is also a general unofficial guide to mastodon at Fedi.Tips.
Bluesky
Bluesky has enjoyed a boost in recent months and also has the aim of decentralisation. The project was originally set up by the co-founder of Twitter—it has the ambience of that platform prior to its recent sale, which many prefer.
Handling multiple accounts
We post media to both services mentioned above.
