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

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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

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#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

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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

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) #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

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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

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#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

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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

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). 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...

Would you like to make your PeerTube accounts and videos more visible? Do you want to reach more viewers and more followers? I've done a guide to promoting your PeerTube accounts, channels and videos at: ➡️

How to promote your PeerTube videos, account and channels | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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I've tried to list everything I could think of, let me know if I've missed anything! 🙂 #FediTips #PeerTube #Fediverse

In case you missed it buried in the replies, I've done a guide to using Mastodon's new quoting feature: ➡️

How do I quote posts in Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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The guide covers how to quote, how to consent to being quoted, how to go back to single-click boosts etc and answers lots more quoting-related questions. #FediTips #Mastodon

Another nice feature on the Mastodon 4.5.0 update: more emoji! If you click the picker in the web interface you should see a lot more emoji to choose from. There is now for example 🦣 which is a lot closer to a mastodon than 🐘 #FediTips #Mastodon

Okay, bonus post today! Mastodon v4.5.0 has just been released! 🥳 This brings many improvements, most significantly: - Fetch all replies, threads are now the same for everyone no matter which server they are on. If new replies are detected in the thread you're viewing, a box will appear that lets you load them automatically. - Quote toots, click 🔁 boost on a post and select "Quote" to use this. If the option isn't there, it means the person posting hasn't given permission to be quoted.