💡 My home is a mess, but I try to keep my computer and online space tidy. So Mastodon lists are important. I have a list for Dutch speaking people, accounts related to the climate crisis, a list with my most favorite accounts (so I can keep an eye on them), a list with only groups (like Kbin and Guppe accounts) and a list with news (my latest list I just started). List can and may overlap. I use the great new exclusive list feature, in other words; accounts on those list don't appear on my home timeline. That makes my home timeline also some kind of list.
To help with this, I use the third party Mastodon List Manager.
Remember, the best way to get all the posts from someone is to activate their notifications!
How: Toggle the 🛎️ (bell) icon on their profile page.
It will only notify for main posts (not boosts or answers). #MastoTips
Watching for XBB-targeted Covid booster vaccine availability in your area? This great automatic tracker by @ndrwy lists every public health unit in Ontario and what the latest status is.
The Lost Cause is my next novel. It's about the climate emergency. It's hopeful. $LibraryJournal called it "a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak." As with every other one of my books #Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I made my own, and I'm pre-selling it on #Kickstarter:
A suggestion... With the new Mastodon 4.2 release you can now remove the contents of any List from your home feed. Create a list for "Long Threads", add this account, and go to settings (slider bar icon at top right) and toggle "Hide these posts from home". Your home feed will no longer receive posts from this account, but you will be able to view them by clicking on the list.
Mastodon is straight popping off the past few weeks! Loads of new sign-ups. Don't forget to do your introductions and tag them so they're easier to find!
There's a lot going on around the #Fediverse here lately with regards to block lists, admins fighting back and forth, instances blocking/defederating from each other and more.
If you're on an instance that is involved in this stuff, and it's not something you enjoy or want to be a part of, always remember you can move to another instance.
Do your research, see what instance will work for you and the things you need or want from an instance, and make the move.
To add a bit more to this, if you're being harassed or something similar and your instance admins/moderators aren't responding in the way that you feel they should be, then that could be another reason to find another instance that works better for you.
Nobody needs to be harassed or deal with toxicity, drama, or anything similar if they choose not to. You always have options of other instances and it's a very easy process to switch!
(The Lists import feature is only on servers running 4.2.0 or above, so you can't do this if you're transferring to a server running an older version.)
Combine these codes with the operator language: to filter your search results.
For example, if you only want Mastodon search results in French you would include language:fr in your search alongside the keywords or hashtags that you're looking for.
Just a shout out to Fedi.Tips, an account that has done, and continues to do, an incredible service here helping people with Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Thank you for your tireless efforts @feditips!!! 👏
You can now remove posts that you view in your lists from your Home feed! For any list that you do not want member posts in your home feed just go to that list's settings (slider bar icon at top right) and toggle "Hide these posts from home".
This is a great way to curate your home feed and find accounts you may have intended to put in a list, but didn't add to the list when you followed the account.
The new 4.2 version of #Mastodon includes significant improvements in the search function!
My favourite one, which I've been using a lot lately to find new people to follow, is that profile search now works on bios too and not just the user name. So if you type, say, "astronomer", "scicomm" or "journalist", you'll find people with those words in their bio.
And the opt-in full-text search for posts, with operators, is also great!
If you are looking to follow someone and you think you've got their handle and instance but it's a dead link, most likely it means they've changed instances.
What to do? Copy and paste their handle in the search bar. You'll find their account on their current instance. Follow.
As you might have noticed earlier today, I accidentally reset the poll from yesterday 😳
So, here's a warning for poll creators:
If you edit a Mastodon poll, changing the options at all will reset the poll to zero, even if people have already voted on it. It will do this automatically without warning, so only edit options if you're okay with resetting the poll.
To see more advice on creating polls on Mastodon, click here:
❓Anyone knows a good tool for viewing and manipulating twitter data archive❔
Reasoning:
I'm definitely not be deleting my tweets from existence because some of my personal db data includes links to tweets and they are important in their context.
But what if I can do a reasonable backup of that?
Also, while I'm at it, I wrote some threads early in the full-scale invasion that could as well be blog posts and fit here perfectly.