One super minor #MastodonTip#FediTips:
If you try and follow someone, and it’s an account that requires the person to approve your follow request?
Use the private “notes” that you can put on their profile to note that you requested to follow them on X date , if they don’t approve it, you won’t accidentally request again and potentially annoy them!
(Since there’s no notification when someone denies your follow request)
I say this as someone who’s completely spaces whether I’ve requested 😂
A little #MastodonTip:
When you look at a post, you might not see all its answers / boosts / favs
When you look at a profile, you might not see all of its posts
One way to see everything is to click on the post or profile settings and then “see original page” (I think).
#MastodonTip#MastoTips Le saviez-vous ? vous pouvez parfaitement rédiger un toot et l’envoyer en #DM « Mentioned People Only » = Personnes mentionnées seulement… sans mentionner personne ! Donc seulement comme « note pour moi-même », puis par exemple bookmarker ce message pour le retrouver facilement.
Exemple : j’ai copié un fichier dans mon Dropbox, et je veux garder le lien sous la main, pour pouvoir le refiler à d’autres, au besoin. Je mets le lien dans un toot à moi-même… Et voilà ! 😋
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!
Wenn ihr wissen wollt, welche benutzerdefinierten Emojis auf eurem oder einem anderen Server im Fediverse vorhanden sind, könnt ihr dieses feine Tool nutzen: https://emojos.in#Mastodon#Fediverse#MastodonTip Hinweis: Nur, wenn ein benuterdefiniertes Emoji auf dem eigenen (!) Server eingerichtet ist, kann es im eigenen Beitrag genutzt werden. Gesehen werden kann dieses Emoji dann aber von allen.
Here is an example of how trunks.social does quote posting.
This is what this post looked like on the Android app.
Get yourself a great client and it will improve your experience quite a lot! #MastodonTip#MastodonTips
#TwitterMigration people, one #MastodonTip is to turn on notifications for more people than you might have when you used #Twitter. Turn it on for people that appear to be active users who boost a lot of posts. It helps to find other people to follow when you are first starting out on #mastodon
Also, Mastodon doesn't use full text searching. Use hashtags liberally if you want more people to find your posts (or don't if you want them to be more obscure). You can also follow hashtags, so do that.
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.
Reminder: Mastodon has good support for both filtering content you don't want to see and for banning entire instances as a user.
Personally, I have a filter for content posted from Twitter to hide those by default from my timeline. I still read a lot of them posted by people whose other content I enjoy, but by default they don't fill up my timeline.
Blocking bird.makeup is useful if you don't like Twitter content.
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.
Mastodon pro tip. You can follow hashtags which is pretty damn amazing. If you feel like Home is a little empty, then follow some hashtags. Just click on one and click follow in the top right corner. (This may vary depending on your platform.)
#MastodonTip If you are more of a reply human than you are a post human, you may be unused to the "shoutyness" of Mastodon.
I like to reply to things, but I don't like to broadcast my replies out of context into the Federated feed, so I recommend setting the default to "Unlisted," if you're one of those reply people.
At times (like this) where you intend to notify everyone, you can just change it to Public.