Do you want help with using Mastodon or the rest of the Fediverse? Do you have any particular questions you want answered?
Feel free to ask in the replies and I'll try to find an answer (or send a DM or mention if you prefer).
It doesn't matter how simple the question seems, am especially keen to help new people and non-technical people 🙂
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Feel free to ask in the replies and I'll try to find an answer (or send a DM or mention if you prefer).
It doesn't matter how simple the question seems, am especially keen to help new people and non-technical people 🙂
#FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse
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https://fedi.tips/setting-your-language-preferences-on-mastodon-and-filtering-out-posts-in-other-languages
Setting your language preferences on Mastodon, filtering out posts in other languages, filtering search results by language | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsGeorgiana Brummell •
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I think it's at Settings > Additional Components > Language filter
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Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
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There used to be an automated filter, but it tended to label posts incorrectly because of the very short nature of most posts.
If people on Mastodon label their posts with the wrong language, it will show up when it shouldn't or be hidden when it shouldn't.
All I can suggest is muting accounts that have incorrectly labelled their posting language.
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There is lots of help for new people on the website at https://fedi.tips (especially Quick Start at the top of the screen).
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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(By the way, Mbin is a continuation of an earlier project called Kbin. Kbin stopped development but its code formed the basis of Mbin.)
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Eelco •
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Some share buttons handle this by asking which server the person wants to share to:
https://mastodonshare.com
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/adding-a-share-on-mastodon-button-to-a-website.html
https://palant.info/2023/10/19/implementing-a-share-on-mastodon-button-for-a-blog
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The existing migration process on Mastodon doesn't delete your old posts, it effectively puts a redirect to your new account on them.
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But to be honest even the most high profile well-funded online services will disappear at some point:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016
Relying on other people's instances is going to lead to this sooner or later.
The only way to guarantee all your posts stay online forever is to run your own instance and take regular multiple backups.
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This isn't as expensive or difficult as people think, it starts from a few euros a month through managed hosting services (which do all the technical stuff for you), e.g. https://masto.host/pricing
This also lets you move your posts to a different hosting provider by copying the database, and doesn't break threads either.
But obviously this isn't going to be for everyone.
Pricing | Masto.host
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There are other servers with much higher limits, or practically no limit at all. For example many of the "Glitch Mastodon"-powered servers have much higher limits, you can find some nice ones listed at https://fedi.garden/tag/glitch-mastodon
There is lots more info about this topic at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-do-some-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-have-bigger-character-limits
Glitch Mastodon | Fedi.Garden
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However, if you're just wanting one-directional following on here of a wide range of different accounts and websites, there's https://rss-parrot.net
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If it only notices some replies from a thread but not others, you may see incomplete threads and profiles. There is more on this topic at https://fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastodon-and-fediverse-posts-and-accounts-automatically-visible-from-all-servers
On a slightly different topic, in some cases servers may block other servers, which would also prevent replies from that server being seen.
Which Mastodon and Fediverse posts and accounts can I see from my server? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsDaniel Casanueva •
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If you want to publish photos you can do so on your existing Mastodon account and they will be visible on Pixelfed.
(There is technically a "log in with Mastodon" button on Pixelfed servers, but this is a highly misleading name. It doesn't actually log people in, it just creates a brand new unconnected Pixelfed account using info from the Mastodon account.)
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Can I post videos in mastodon? Or is it better to register in peertube?
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PeerTube is much better for long videos because it was designed for them, and because it has a "peer to peer" system for sharing bandwidth between the people watching a video.
Basically: short clips are fine on Mastodon, long videos are much better on PeerTube.
More info about PeerTube at https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse
PeerTube: Video on the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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It's like if you have email on Yahoo, you can send and receive email from people on other providers. But you cannot log in on those other providers with your Yahoo account.
If you're just wanting to watch videos, you can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon. But if you want to publish long videos, you should create a PeerTube account as well.
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I register everywhere and post links to my accounts. I just need to choose a server.
What is the advantage of this technology then? I'm just studying fediverse for 3 days and I don't understand what the advantage is.
I was able to follow the author on regular social media anyway, at the expense of reposts. 🤔
If someone posts a video on youtube they repost it on other social networks, it's human nature.
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There are many other advantages too: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/
Why is the Fediverse on so many separate servers? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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The server lists at https://fedi.garden and https://joinmastodon.org/servers require all listed servers to give three months warning if they ever shut down, which gives members time to transfer their accounts elserwhere.
You can also browse Fedi.Garden by the year a server was founded, if you are more comfortable on servers that have been around a long while: https://fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-founding-year
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This isn't 100% guaranteed though, sometimes servers change their admin account, but it's a quick easy rule of thumb.
"While cool it seems like a relatively small list of servers in the grand scale of the fediverse."
There are much longer lists available, but they are much less safe.
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-Some people choose to hide their follows/followers as Danny said. More info on this at https://fedi.tips/how-to-hide-your-follows-and-followers-in-mastodon
-All servers hide follows/followers from other servers when viewing profiles of accounts from other servers.
This second thing is probably what you're seeing. Apparently this happens due to privacy concerns, but they perhaps aren't justified (some very technical discussion of this at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20533).
How to hide your follows and followers in Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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can i still call them tweets if twitter doesnt exist?
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Traditionally they're called toots on Mastodon, but as a lot of people on the Fediverse aren't on Mastodon (there are lots of different types of platform here) it's usually safest to call them posts.
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@James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺 @Fedi.Tips it does appear to have been disabled. As you mentioned, likely due to the load.
You can still download them from Instagram and wait until imports are opened again, I suppose.
As a possible consolation, the Instagram pics are imported as private and there seems no way to make them public at the moment.
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https://pixey.org has been pretty good for example (and it currently has IG imports switched on).
Bear in mind though IG imports use resources, so any server may switch them off temporarily if they're busy with lots of new users.
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2. Go to your profile page (click on your profile image to do this)
3. Click ⋯ and select "Muted users"
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All of the other UI elements have text labels, I never noticed there was an unlabeled menu.
And hey, Followed Hashtags is in there too! Nice. That's something else I've been hunting for.
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(Also though, Guppe does sometimes get a backlog of posts to deliver.)
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1. Go to Notifications
2. On the notification from the thread you want to mute, click ⋯
3. Select "Mute Conversation"
This should work in advanced web and ordinary web.
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The mitigation would probably be to post in non-public visibilities such as followers-only or mentions-only.
I'm not sure about the share of server traffic as I use managed hosting, you would need to ask someone with direct access to server logs.
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This should be visible for all your mention notifications?
"Filter this post" isn't muting the thread, that's something different.
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Deuxièment question : existe-t-il un serveur dédié aux aides sociales genre regroupant les associations d'aide aux éxilés ?
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There is no direct tool for importing things from Facebook. You would have to manually repost anything you want to move.
I don't know of any servers on that particular topic, but topics are usually discussed across many servers. So, you might want to try following hashtags and groups related to that topic.
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If you're using a Mastodon app, that may limit you to four images.
You should be able to post more than four images if you log in on your Pixelfed server's website, or if you use a dedicated Pixelfed app.
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BUT... unfortunately this system is currently hard-coded to allow it to repeat after 40 other posts have passed through your timeline. 😞
I think it was written many years ago when timelines on here were very quiet, but obviously nowadays it's allowing repeats too often.
More info about this and possible workarounds here:
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-stop-seeing-the-same-boosted-post-again-and-again-in-mastodon/
How do I stop seeing the same boosted post again and again in Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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