Do you want to know what the Fediverse is, and how Mastodon is a part of it?

This article might help, it tries to explain the Fediverse in straightforward non-technical terms:

https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse

TL:DR - The Fediverse is a network of independent social media servers that talk to each other to form a single seamless network. This is very similar to the way you can call someone on another phone network seamlessly, because the phone providers talk to each other.

You can now set your quote posting privacy preferences on Mastodon. You can allow anyone / just your followers / nobody to quote you:

1. Log into your server's website
2. Click Preferences (if you're on a phone it's ☰ in bottom right and Preferences)
3. Click "Other" (if you're on a phone it's ☰ in top right and "Other")
4. On "Who Can Quote" menu select option you want
5. Click "Save Changes" button

The actual ability to quote post will be in the next Mastodon update.

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New version (v1.1.0) of #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, has a toggle switch to allow or disallow the selection of more than one filter option for when you're checking out your favourite hashtags.

* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action (slightly out of date): https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#feditips

- Fedi is a large federated community where many people of different backgrounds talk to each other. Be kind to others, we are all in this together, it might not be the "last bastion for humanity on the internet" but it is very close to it.

- Always add "alt" text to videos or photos. This makes content accessible to the visually impaired, people who don't understand context and those with slow internet speeds.

- Add "cw" (content warnings) to your posts if it contains: mature/lewd themes, medication/drugs, mental health(mh) themes such as depression, suicide(sui), self-deprecation and self-harm(sh); politics(pol), scopophobia(staring), venting(vent), overuse of uppercase(caps) and profanity.

- A lot of people use / as the "i have seen your message checkmark".

- The total / count is not visible for other people besides the original poster.

- The total count is "somewhat" visible to others, but it depends on their instance.

- Follow hashtags you like, it's a great way of finding new people to follow.

- In some clients, if you add a [pronouns] section to your profile, this will show up next to your name.

- Make a good habit of adding people to lists right after you follow them. This will help in the future if your timeline gets full of posts and you need a way of prioritizing specific content.

- Some instances support "local only" posting, which allows to create posts that are only visible to people from your instance.

Do you want to write posts longer than 500 characters?

There are many well-run reliable servers which have much higher post size limits, you can see a hand-picked list here:

https://fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-size

These longer posts will display fine to all your followers, even followers on servers with 500 character limits.

(If you want to move your account to another server, there's a step-by-step easy-to-understand guide to this at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server )

What do you think is the best way to grow a follower base on Mastodon?
#Mastodon #growyourown #FediTips
@FediTips what do you think and why?

For the night crew, If you use RSS like I do, take a day and go through your feed reader and clean it out. If there’s a publication you don’t read for a long time, just literally get rid of the feed. I had to get rid of a lot of feeds today because more and more are posting really great things behind a pay wall. I can still read it, but I can’t share it. I figured those kind of publications aren’t worth keeping around honestly. I also got rid of a lot of feeds that only publish excerpts and make me visit there website. If the article is good, I’ll share the article, if you make me leave my feed reader to read what you had to say, it’s not worth reading. #RSS #FediTips

FediTip: For the past few days, I’ve been using the dictation feature on the keyboard to help me write my alt-text. It is so much easier, more accurate than my clumsy typing, and is saving me a lot of time.

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#AI #Productivity #FediTips #Tech #Guide #PromptEngineering

Please also block volk.love. This one is a PeerTube instance. If you run anything in the ActivityPub realm you don’t want to deal with openly white racist videos.
#FediBlock #FediTips

You can view Mastodon in dark mode or light mode, and on some servers and apps there are many other colour schemes too.

If you're using your server's website, here is how you can set your Mastodon theme:

1. Click Preferences (if you’re on a phone click ☰ at bottom right and then Preferences)
2. In the "Site Theme" menu select the colour scheme you want
3. Click the "Save Changes" button

More info about choosing themes on Mastodon at:

https://fedi.tips/customising-your-mastodon-interface-colours

@FediTips There's an instance out there called volk.network that every instance should defederate called volk.network. It has a self-described pro-white ideology. They do not even attempt to hide their racist agenda.
#FediTips #fediblock

New instance to block. volk.network. Apparently these guys are neonazis.

If you use RSS like I do, take a day and go through your feed reader and clean it out. If there’s a publication you don’t read for a long time, just literally get rid of the feed. I had to get rid of a lot of feeds today because more and more are posting really great things behind a pay wall. I can still read it, but I can’t share it. I figured those kind of publications aren’t worth keeping around honestly. I also got rid of a lot of feeds that only publish excerpts and make me visit there website. If the article is good, I’ll share the article, if you make me leave my feed reader to read what you had to say, it’s not worth reading. #RSS #FediTips

Hey #FediTips, lately I've had a space with three dots showing up in my notifications. My inferrence is that something is hitting a filter, but I don't see an obvious way to figure out what the content behind the block is, or why it's getting blocked. Any suggestions?

Are you seeing too much of certain topics on Mastodon?

You can customise what you see using Mastodon's "Filters" feature:

https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon

Filters let you automatically hide posts containing specific words, phrases, parts of words, hashtags, links or emoji.

Filtered posts can either be either hidden completely, or displayed behind a content warning so you can click them open if needed. You can also set up multiple filters if you want.

Don't be afraid to interact with people before sending a follow request. Some people like to know what others are like before following, so feel free to comment on public posts.

But also: # of follows don't mean anything here.and it's beautiful.