Getting to this point has been a long, dangerous and demoralising road for a country that – with good reason – considers itself to be a paragon of West African democracy. https://bit.ly/3Pyjf3m
It's safer for your followers if you put the original URL (link), not a shortened link. Shortened URLs can redirect to #phishing sites without the person clicking being able to judge the safety of the link before clicking.
A URL in Mastodon counts for 23 characters no matter how long it is.
Admins, remember, it's YOUR decision if you decide to defederate, block or mute Threads on YOUR server, or if you choose to NOT do any of those.
There are many others out there that will try and force their opinion(s) down your throat as much as possible, but in the end, the server is YOUR SERVER, not theirs.
You run your server how YOU want, not how others would like for you to run your server.
So, for a cool #Mastodon client, written by @terhechte
What’s neat about it?
Instead of showing a chronological POST timeline, it shows you a chronological POSTERS timeline.
So it’s like SMS/iMessage - you see it sorted by people, which can be nice if you’re wondering if you’re missing posts by folks in the flow of messges.
It’s open source and semi-cross platform (binaries on MacOS only).
Check it out! https://github.com/terhechte/Ebou?tab=readme-ov-file #MastodonTips
I'm givin' up...
cdrom.tokyo have so many fuckin' issues. I've tried different browsers and time later it get useless: it turns blank. What the fuck?
Seriously should have their app so I could use it.
Again, I will be posting at nights from my laptop only.
Hope minidisc.tokyo won't have that shit... #akkoma#fediverse#Vivaldi
The Mastodon timeline doesn't have any algorithms, so if you want to follow some developments/news it's a good idea to follow a hashtag with regard to the developments and pin it as a separate column in the advanced WebView. #mastodontips
Decided to not be annoyed by, but to embrace the fact that Mastodon doesn't try to list all replies or the exact number of boosts and likes of posts from other servers.
They're a selection that reflects the interests on my local server. If I need see the exact answers and numbers, I can just copy the URL of the post, and open it in a separate browser tab.
Newbie question: Is there a way to see ONLY the replies that people have made to your posts? There are some people who have replied to me who I plan on replying back to, so I bookmarked the conversation, but I’ve bookmarked a whole bunch of other stuff to and the conversations are all mixed in. I just want to see the bookmarked replies (kinda like an inbox, I guess). Anyone have a solution for this?
Let's say I want to follow someone from another instance. I hit "Follow," it asks me to type in my instance, then redirects me to login / follow from my instance.
I understand the mechanics of why this is necessary, but I'm wondering if there are alternative frontends I can use that make this a bit more of a cohesive experience, e.g. once I login, it remembers my instance and removes this hop for me.
Now that #Threads has begun the process of #Federation with the greater #Mastodon community (and the #Fediverse in general), I am seeing more and more instances that are electing to #defederate from Threads pre-emptively.
This means that they are not giving their users the choice as to whether they want to see this content.
If your Admin has decided to arbitrarily block Threads, and you wish to have access to the thriving #community there moving forward, I would suggest looking to #migrate your account to another instance that is maintaining Federation with Threads.
You will generally be able to see this information in the "Moderated Servers" section of your instances "/about" page. If you do not see it there, be sure to ask your Admin.
If you decide that you wish to make this migration, I have created some short guide videos on not only how to migrate your account across easily, but also another on how to ensure your list of followed accounts (and blocked ones) can be brought along with you.
Do you want to block threads from your account? :ablobcatnod:
Would you rather eat a plastic milk jug ring than see a :facebook: Facebook minion meme on your timeline? :ablobcatnodfast:
Well oh boy do I have a treat for you! If you're like me and have at least three different Mastodon accounts (or even just one!), you can dom-block them quick fast and in a hurry...
Sᴛᴇᴘ 1: Login to your account. 🖼️¹
Sᴛᴇᴘ 2: Go to Settings, then Development 🖼️²
Sᴛᴇᴘ 3: Create a New application with at least write or write:blocks access. 🖼️³
Sᴛᴇᴘ 4: After you saved, click on the name of your application and copy Your access token 🖼️⁴
Sᴛᴇᴘ 5: Repeat for all your accounts, then run the following shell script... (with your info in the first part, of course)
readarray -t pw <<EOF<br></br>infosec.exchange KEY1<br></br>mastodon.social KEY2<br></br>defcon.social KEY3<br></br>EOF<br></br><br></br>masdablock() {<br></br> local i c u p<br></br> while [ -n "$1" ]; do<br></br> for ((i=0;i<${#pw[@]};i++));do<br></br> read -ra p <<<"${pw[i]}"<br></br> u="$p/api/v1/domain_blocks"<br></br> u="https://${u}?domain=$1"<br></br> c="Authorization: Bearer ${p[1]}"<br></br> curl -H "$c" -X "POST" "$u"<br></br> done; shift; echo<br></br> done;<br></br>}<br></br>masdablock threads.net<br></br>
Has anyone tried #Phanpy as an alternative Mastodon web-based UI?
I've been using it for the past couple of days and I definitely find it much easier to read posts.
For those not familiar, when you go to https://phanpy.social, you just specify your Mastodon server (like hear-me.social) when you set up the account and then log in using the same Mastodon credentials. You now have access to your account, but have a different UI is all.
There are, of course, some improvements I'd like to see, but I am very much enjoying it.