#Mastotip
By adding your location to your Mastodon profile, you help others understand your context. Mastodon is international, and while sentences like "it is great to be back home" makes sense to you, it really makes no sense to others who do not know where "home" is.
I would never recommend publishing your street address, but mentioning your city or even just your region or your country on your Mastodon profiler is really helpful.
If you reply to a post to add someone’s handle to it, to have that person see the post, here is a better way:
Say the post is from user A, and you hit reply. You then get a reply which contains @ A. Many then just add the name of the person they want to see the post, replying with @ A @ B. But that means A is notified, that you have written something for them, which is really not ideal.
So instead, delete the @ A, then write @ B, and hit reply. B gets notified, A is not bothered.
I see so many great artists here just not realizing to use hashtags and they get like 3 likes on stellar posts and everytime i have to hold myself back from shaking them and going JUST TAG IT, PEOPLE WILL LOVE IT BUT NOONE CAN SEE IT WITHOUT HASHTAGS
If you are replying to a post and don't want your reply showing up in your followers timelines without context, don't forget to set toot privacy to "Unlisted"
TIL when people post in different languages (like I do) you can subscribe to only one language while not changing your global settings. #FediTip#MastoTip
If you want your posts to be visible, use hashtags. This is more important here than anywhere else, because there is no cross-instance full-text search. And people do follow hashtags.
In my experience well-hashtagged posts get half of their interactions from people who don't follow me.
Followgraph will provide you with all the follows of the people you follow.
What? OK, so say you have found a few accounts that interest you. Run Followgraph and you will see and be able to follow all of their follows ranked in order of how many are shared.
So, you are a more veteran user. You don't want to run Followgraph, because your interests are all over the place and it will return tons of accounts. How do you limit Followgraph to just subjects you are interested in?
Create an ALT account. Just another empty account. Follow just those accounts you want to run through Followgraph. Follow results then follow them in your MAIN account by exporting follows from your ALT and uploading to your MAIN.
Remember: if your server has the new Search enabled, you should decide if you want to be included in it or not (Settings > Public Profile > Privacy & Reach) and tick (or not) the “Include public posts in search results” box.
It’s disabled by default so please enable it to make Mastodon more searchable and useful!! #MastoTip#ElasticSearch
@catsalad you don’t really need multiple accounts just access the public local feed of a server by appending to your browser:
/public/local
So it looks like
example.com/public/local
Hola a todos, os traigo un resumen de las principales novedades de Mastodon 4.2.0:
Ahora la gente, si lo deseas, puede encontrarte buscando por texto sobre cosas que hayas escrito públicamente antes. Por ejemplo, si pusiste algo de pokémon y alguien busca "pokémon" en el buscador, puedes salir tu post y así encontrarte y seguirte (ideal para buscar mutuals). Eso sí, esta opción viene desactivada por defecto y hay que activarla para que otra gente encuentre vuestros mensajes públicos. En la primera imagen que adjunto vienen los tres simples pasos necesarios para activarlo. (No olvidéis darle al botón de guardar).
Tambíen hay ligeros cambios en la interfaz web, por ejemplo, ahora podéis ver los roles de los usuarios y que papel desempeñan en el servidor. (Ver imagen 2) Esto es ideal para evitar suplantaciones de identidad dentro de un servidor de Mastodon.
Ahora cuando publiquéis un post, si tiene varios hashtags al final, estos se mostrarán aparte para no manchar la publicación. Si pulsáis sobre cualquiera de estos hashtags, además, podéis acceder a otros posts que contengan ese mismo hashtag directamente. (Ver imagen 3)
Y por último, uno de los cambios más llamativos... Las lineas temporales están ahora todas juntas dentro de la sección de "Cronologías", desde ahí se pueden seguir viendo las lineas locales y federadas (o ambas juntas). (Ver imagen 4)
¡Espero que estas novedades os sean de utilidad a todos y que vayamos descubriendo más cositas poco a poco en la nueva versión 4.2.0 de Mastodon!
Si encontráis algún fallo que pueda existir por favor, decídmelo para tratar de corregirlo.
Over the last day this account has been conducting a demonstration experiment boosting breaking news and analysis related to Trump's Georgia racketeering to show how Mastodon has become an excellent source for real time breaking news and to provide newshounds with good accounts to follow. In a way, this demonstration has been too successful. Followers who may not be interested are getting spammed on this topic. That was not the intent, and apologies. As of now, the experiment is concluded.
@Hedgewizard Great comment. Once you begin to follow many accounts, particularly breaking news posters, your main feed becomes pretty chaotic. It is a bit of work, but one solution for this is to make more use of lists. Put the high post frequency accounts in a list like "USPolitics" and other accounts in respective categories of interest to you. This way you can determine what subjects you want to look at and each list feed will be curated for only that particular subject.
Hey y'all! I posted this in a conversation re: differences between instances; I just thought I'd go ahead and make it its own post from the perspective of a user - there's other technical differences for instance admins, but this is an end-user perspective.
So, different instances might have:
Different features (different character counts that may be higher than 500; emote reactions/favourites, different themes, markdown formatting for posts). From experience, different features from different instances have varying compatibility - i.e. Mastodon user favouriting Misskey/Firefish post shows as ❤️ reaction, Misskey user reacting to (vanilla) Mastodon posts counts on Mastodon as a favourite ⭐, Glitch-Soc Mastodon is inter-operable with both.
They may have a specific topic in mind. For example, hachyderm.io and tech.lgbt are tech and LGBTQ+ related; urusai.social and sakurajima.moe (my home instance 😉) has a focus on Japanese media discussion; mastodon.art is dedicated to art; kolektiva.social is political, anti-colonialist, left-wing.
Moderation and rules may differ. Some instances might have bigger moderation staff and/or have small userbase to moderate, and some may have different or additional rules. Some may be more strict on stuff (prohibiting AI unless tagged, no NFTs, stricter NSFW culture, etc), some may ban certain instances for whatever reason (mastodon.art is infamous - for better or for worse - for having strict defederating policies with the rationale of protecting their users). You can choose an instance you're comfortable with and makes you feel safe.
An extension of the previous point; the level of federation between different instances are different too, depending on what they're comfortable with handling. Instances can be completely blocked off, or they can be "silenced" and not appear on federated timelines (but can have people from different instances interact if they follow each other), have media rejected but other posts allowed through.
That's what I can think of off the top of my head when it comes to the differences between mastodon.social and other instances.
One more thing, DO NOT FORGET - this is a FEDERATED social network, that's why we call it the #Fediverse.
For example, if you have someone you know on mastodon.social or firefish.social or misskey.io; you WILL Be able to talk with them (unless your instance has completely blocked those instances). You may have to jump through a few hoops (putting the person's handle suffixed with @mastodon.social, or pasting a URL into the search box), or use extensions like FediAct (https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct); but barring any restrictions or defederation, you shouldn't have any issues.
APOLOGIES FOR ANY ERRORS THAT I'VE MADE IN THIS POST! I'll give corrections when necessary!
C'est vraiment plus possible, Twitter, entre les comploplos et les réacs de tous poils qui vomissent leur bile non-stop, encouragés par leur gourou mégalomane !
Dommage, parce qu'il y a des tas de comptes intéressants de vulgarisateurs ou d'institutions culturelles qu'on ne trouve pas sur Mastodon (où j'ai toujours du mal à comprendre le fonctionnement global, du reste)... 😢
Tip: If you aren't writing in English, please be sure to change the language of your post, or visit your account settings to change your default posting language.
It really helps with translation when the post doesn't claim to be English while containing French, for example.
For those new here from #twitter to #mastodon may I suggest @FediFollows as well as @feditips. If you’re interested in running your own server I personally use @mastohost for managing my service, simple to setup and pay them, been using them for months and it’s cheaper than Twitter blue for many individuals, but inexpensively can scale if you become more popular as I have been. Enjoy your time tooting posts away #twittermigration#welcome
Another #Mastotip for this mega thread of tips. If you happen to experience yourself getting Rate limited, no it's not that Elon Musk's ghost has followed you. #Mastodon has rate limits per user so the server isn't overloaded.
If you find this happening close your extra browser tabs with Mastodon open on your devices, and also consider using "Slow Mode" under Preferences -> Appearance.
My #ADHD leaves many windows and tabs open often causing this. #Twittermigration#Twitter#welcome
Another #Mastotip for this megathread of tips for people new to #Mastodon from #Twitter. I was just introduced to Followgraph, which lets you plug your profile in and graph out who your follow's are following, so you can possibly find more interesting accounts to follow! https://followgraph.vercel.app
H/T: @jfkimmes