Everything in your main "Home" timeline on Mastodon is there for one of these reasons: -An account you follow posted it -An account you follow boosted it -The post contains a hashtag you follow -An account you follow replied to an account you also follow -An account you follow replied to itself Nothiing else gets in your main feed, it's just these things. If hashtags are at the end of a post they are displayed in a smaller font below the post, which some people miss. #FediTips #Mastodon

Today is the 5th anniversary of the FediTips account 🥳 I started it because of the nasty stuff happening on centralised corporate social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc). These corporations promote "engagement" through algorithms that radicalise people into frenzies of bigoted hatred 😞 I'm trying to help people use alternatives instead of feeding the beast. This account's first tip is here: 🎂

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FediTips has moved! (@feditips@mstdn.social)

✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 ch...

The earliest archive is here: 🎂

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FediTips (@feditips@mstdn.social)

16 Toots, 386 Following, 177 Followers · Posting tips and hints about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌍 @ or DM me if you have any su...

#FediTips

⚠️ WARNING: If anyone tells you your account has been suspended and you need to "verify" it, they are trying to scam you. DO NOT respond to them or click their link. DO report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam post and then "Report" and if possible select the option to forward the report to its origin server. The scammers may have :Mastodon: Mastodon logos as their profile pictures and are posing as technical support.

Do you wonder how some people's posts are longer than 500 characters? It's because they are on servers that have higher character limits for posts (or in some cases no limits at all). More info at: ➡️

Why do some accounts on Mastodon and the Fediverse have bigger character limits? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

You can find some human-curated well-run servers with higher character limits listed here: ➡️

Larger Post Size | Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

If you want to move to a higher-limit server, account transfer instructions are at

Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

#FediTips #Mastodon

I've updated the guide on how to transfer your Mastodon account from one server to another: ➡️

Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

It now has an additional step where you switch off email notifications for new followers on the account you're moving to. Apparently some people have been receiving lots of email notifications for new followers when they've transferred followers over. For some reason no one has raised this issue before, but it seems to have happened to a number of people. #FediTips #Mastodon

Hey people who have ever moved their Mastodon accounts to a different server, I need to ask you something: When you moved, did you get a flood of email notifications about your followers transferring to the new Mastodon server? If you did get a flood of emails, how recently did you move your account? EDIT: Also it would help to know if you had email notifications about new followers switched on or off (more info at

How do I stop receiving email notifications from Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

) #AskFedi

Corporate social networks are trying to kill the hashtag because they want users to only discover things through corporate algorithms 😩 Mastodon and the wider Fediverse love the hashtag as it allows humans to retain control of their feeds 🥰 You can use hashtags to label a post with its main topics. More info about adding hashtags at

What are Hashtags? How do I use them on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

You can follow hashtags to see posts labelled with those tags in your feed. More info at

How do I follow hashtags on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

#FediTips #Hashtags

Did you know Mastodon has a post scheduling system? You can write a post now and set it to publish in the future: ➡️

Scheduling posts on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Weirdly, the scheduler is built into the Mastodon server software but the developers never got round to making an official interface for it. That's why it isn't in the web interface or official apps. However, Mastodon is an open platform and third party apps are able to provide the interface so that this feature can be used 🥳 #FediTips #Mastodon

As I posted recently, the continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why:

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

). The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records. If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to both these issues: -

GitHub

Please don't propose to use the flagship instance by default · Issue #568 · mastodon/mastodon-android

Hello, Prompting users to join mastodon.social by default wuth a single button could be highly harmful to mastodon and the whole fediverse, as it m...

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GitHub

[BUG] App onboarding is directing new users to join mastodon.social by default · Issue #1023 · mastodon/mastodon-ios

Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Current Behavior With the current setup, the app strongly implies users sh...