#question Il y a-t-il un moyen pour purger tous les marque-pages de mon compte ? ... j'ai pas trouvé et je voudrais remettre le compteur à 0, pour lutter contre ma manie de bookmarkeuse en série... #help#mastotips
J'ai une super amie qui débarque sur Mastodon. Je voudrais l'aider à sa prise en main. Ne voulant pas réinventer la poudre, j'ai cherché des éléments mais je ne trouve plus les fils qui donnent des conseils (en français) pour celleux qui viennent d'arriver. Quelq'un·e pourrait me filer un coup de main ? #aide#mastotips#twittermigration
Does anyone know of a tool that helps to generate Alt Text descriptions of images that don't have text? I feel my descriptions are either too sparse or novellas. Help.
New to Mastodon and confused about why you don't see anything on your home feed and nobody interacts with your posts?
Follow people. Fedi has no algorithm beyond the "explore" tab. It works completely by follow relationships. The more people you follow with similar interests, the more likely they'll follow you back. Not to mention your home feed will be filled by their toots.
Hashtags. Full indexed search is EXTREMELY new and some instances haven't upgraded yet. Even then, some users don't want EVERY toot of theirs to be discoverable so they turn that feature off. However, Hashtags are always searchable for public toots. Litter your posts with relevant hashtags so people can find your toots!
#Mastodon, qu'est ce que tu recommanderais comme messagerie instantanée chiffrée/sécurisée ? 🤔 Pour remplacer les produits Meta (Messenger et WhatsApp, essentiellement) #mastotips#fedi#privacy
Tu veux mute #Threads avant de croiser un de ses comptes ?
. Exporte ta liste de "Blocages de domaines" (préférences sur le web > import/export)
. Ajoute threads.net à la liste exportée au format texte avec un outil type calepin
. Importe la liste modifiée
If blocking threads.net functions like a mute, I still need a way to actually block #threads accounts so I don’t fall prey to Meta’s data exploitation.
Anyone? If you don’t know, boosting is appreciated.
Did you know you can follow hashtags on Mastodon? Well, you can!
Just search for whatever tag you're interested in and click the big "follow hashtag" button. Any new public posts with that tag will appear in your home feed alongside posts by users you follow. This is a really good way to find more of what you like on the Fediverse!
On a similar note: Remember to use hashtags responsibly! Add tags if you want people to find your posts and avoid the temptation to add unrelated tags to try get extra eyeballs. The community will thank you. :)
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.
My year with Mastodon (#MastodonWrapped)
I celebrated my first #Mastoversary a few days ago. It’s been a good first year on Mastodon for me; I like the #Fediverse idea, I like people here, and I like the calm vibe this place offers.
Also, I ditched all of my other #SocialMedia accounts. All but one.¹
As I say, Mastodon is a good #platform to be, however there are a couple of things I’ve been struggling with the whole time. I’m going to put together a brief summary below in hope that someone can help me with them.
¹ I still keep Instagram to exchange cute pics of sloths and pandas, and ice-hockey reels with my sons. 😁
2/
The thing that buggers me the most is boosting.
I know boosting is important because it’s the only way to spread the news around as there are no #algorithms here to force-feed us what they “think” is good for us, and I’m quite a #booster myself, too. But I’ve cut back a bit recently for a simple reason: I can’t hide boosted posts from my #profile.
I mean, when someone views my profile I want them to see my toots first so they can get an idea of who I am and, conversely, when I visit someone else’s profile I prefer to see what they have to say.
If you’re a generous booster but not so creative in the “#ContentCreation” department, just like me, you get a profile full of re-blogged posts where your original #toots are hard to find. And no, #Pinned toots don’t do the trick.
If there’s a #hack to work around this, I would much appreciate if you share it here.
Do you want your posts to be as easy to discover as possible? You might want to opt into the "full text search" system.
By default, posts on here are only searched by hashtag. However, if you opt into full text search, all the words in your entire posts will become searchable by other people.
Do you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse? Especially if you're a beginner or unsure about techy things?
You can ask by messaging me or replying to this thread, and I'll try to help or find someone else who can help. Don't worry if a question seems silly or basic!
You can also look things up on the guide at https://fedi.tips, which has an "essentials" section at the top and a complete list of answered questions below that.
Miss those thread unrollers from other sites? There’s a Mastodon one!
You can mention @mastoreaderio anywhere in the thread with the word “u n roll" (without those extra spaces of course) and it will reply with a link to the unrolled thread.
Have you noticed an eye icon 👁️ in the top right corner of Mastodon threads? Do you wonder what this does?
It's actually a really useful feature:
If you're browsing a thread that contains posts hidden by Content Warnings (CWs), you can click the eye to toggle them all open or closed. This saves you having to open each post one by one.
(Note that different apps may have a different icon for this same feature.)