#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
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.
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)... 😢
Alle drei bieten nicht nur unterschiedliche Layouts und Designs, sondern auch zusätzliche Funktionen an. Schaut sie euch mal an, wenn euch das Webinterface von Mastodon nicht zusagt. Es ist toll, was es alles gibt.
Wer nach einem richtig guten Tweetdeck-Ersatz für Mastodon sucht, der viele Spalten und viele Konfigurationen anbietet, wird vermutlich mit https://mastodeck.com Freude haben.
Verlinkungen auf Songs, Alben und Interpret*innen 🎵 🎶 sind in den sozialen Netzwerken noch immer etwas anstrengend und wenig inklusiv. Denn viele posten nur die URL eines Streaminganbieters, den sie selbst nutzen, schließen damit aber viele andere aus, die ihn nicht nutzen bzw. woanders sind.
Eine Alternative, die ich sehr sympathisch finde, sind Webdienste, die eine Art Brücke schlagen: Auf Landingpages wird zu diversen Streamingdiensten wie Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Amazon Music oder Deezer verwiesen.
Es gibt einige dieser Smart Links, darunter #Songwhip und #songg, für die keine Registrierung erforderlich ist. Einfach Song, Album oder Interpret*in eingeben und eine Landingpage erstellen.
Posted in German this morning, that surely many people are leaving #Mastodon early after signing up because the Web-UI doesn't really look nice.
That's why I would suggest telling every newcomer not only to try out other mobile-apps, but also web-apps like #Elk, #Phanpy, #Trunks and more (see the screenshots). In addition, one could also look at other services in the #Fediverse, I especially like #Calckey.