mastodon

This is shameless self-promotion, but part of a working theory I have that Mastodon users have more to offer Lemmy than your average Reddit user. See my other post about it here: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2174573...

Noone is on there noone talks to me noone shars my intrests everyone is just lgbtq tech workers

geteilt von: kerala.party/post/155876...

Curious about thoughts on boosting and favoriting here. I’ve only used Mastodon for about a year, and mostly lurk on a personal but also have a business account that posts daily. Maybe you have advice for me or ideas to improve things....

I’m trying to boost a reply to one of my lemmy comments on my mastodon instance. However, that comment does not appear to have been pushed to my fairly small Mastodon instance....

This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don’t understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?

cross-posted from: lemmy.cat/post/1793073...

I had been spending quite some time on mastodon, but lately realized that it just isn’t for me....

“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...

Like breaking news, general news?

I am trying to get into Mastodon (never really used twitter before but I am curious about the fediverse) and it has been noticeably difficult to search for topics and content. Most search queries turn up blank or only with one or two posts. Some hashtags appear as suggested with “0 people talking” and indeed, they are empty....

The most common answer I see is something along the lines of “it’s the equivalent of liking a post on twitter”. It seems that this is not the case, as the Mastodon devs seem rather adamant that they don’t want “likes” in Mastodon. Perhaps it’s a method of saving posts? Well, that doesn’t make sense either, since...

On the home feed (on multiple different clients including Ivory, Ice Cubes, mammoth, and the Mastodon web app) posts are injected from accounts that are not followed, nor do they include any hashtags. How are they doing this?

I was wondering if there are any Mastodon clients (desktop or mobile) that support pagination like that of Lemmy. I do not like infinite scrolling, and much prefer pagination with page numbers, but I have only seen clients with infinite scrolling or a ‘load more’ button.

Or have I missed the train on this? I know services like twitodon.com were available to find users on Mastodon that an account is following on Twitter. But it looks like with the API goofiness, those services are shut down. Is there any way to do this now?

Does mastodon support groups or communities? like lemmy the users can make groups or communities and manage them.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2321048...

If I block a user should it prevent them from coming up if I’m browsing “local”? There is a user just spamming gross porn…I blocked and refreshed but posts don’t go away from the “local” feed....

For example: find everyone who wrote “journalist” in their profile description.

That’s pretty much what I had tried to use twitter for when it wasn’t giving me political bullshit on my feed.

Hello folks,...

OK, this has started to bother me enough to ask about it:...

Has anybody else had issues with Mastodon and desktop webpush notifications? I have them enabled on my PC’s web browser, Firefox. I made certain to allow notifications. Yet, I don’t get any. I read somewhere that regenerating the vapid key pair can fix the problem so I did this but still nothing. I welcome any ideas.

I found this blog post useful for explaining how to interact with Lemmy via Mastodon.