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Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Front Page
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About This Site
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watch this video ⧉
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Choose a server and sign up
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Choose an app
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your server’s website
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Fill in your profile
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Discover people to follow
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Follow some hashtags
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tips to get more followers
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Share your account address
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to verify your account
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What is Mastodon? What is the Fediverse?
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Who owns the Fediverse? Is it owned by a corporation or venture capital firm? Can it be bought out by Google/Facebook/Elon Musk?
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Who sets the rules on the Fediverse? How do I find out what the rules are on my server?
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Who gets to start their own server?
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Why is the Fediverse on so many separate servers?
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What if a server misbehaves? What if it allows its members to do something really bad?
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Does Mastodon or the Fediverse use ads or trackers or algorithms or blockchain/cryptocurrency or anything annoying like that?
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What other kinds of servers are on the Fediverse?
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What are toots? What are boosts? What are CWs? What are instances? What is birdsite?
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What’s that rainbow pentagon thing that everyone seems to use on the Fediverse?
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Are there any other guides to Mastodon and the Fediverse?
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How do I join?
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Do I need multiple accounts? Do I need to join lots of servers?
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Choosing a good username for the Fediverse
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What if a server closes down? What happens to my account?
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It’s a really bad idea to join a big server!
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Can I use my account to log in on other servers?
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Inviting people onto the Fediverse
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Using multiple accounts
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Transferring your Mastodon account to another server
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Logging out of your account
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How to delete your account
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Who can see my posts? How do I send DMs?
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How do I post images, videos or audio? What can I attach to a post? How do I post GIFs?
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How do I post polls? How do I allow multiple responses in a poll?
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What about Likes and Re-Tweets? How do I do those in Mastodon?
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Crossposting between Mastodon and Twitter
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What are custom emoji? How do I access them? Can I add new ones?
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How do I share posts?
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Embedding posts on your website
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How do I edit my posts?
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How do I delete my posts?
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How do I pin my posts to my profile?
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Why can’t I quote other posts in Mastodon?
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Some people seem to have much bigger character limits than me? What’s going on?
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Favourites vs. Bookmarks in Mastodon
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Customising Mastodon polls to allow multiple selections
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Adjusting photo previews on Mastodon so they look nice
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I’ve written a link but it isn’t clickable. How do I make it clickable?
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It’s a good idea to have at least some followers before posting your best content
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What is a bot account, and how do I mark my account as one?
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How do I search for stuff?
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Where are the trending posts and hashtags?
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How do I follow someone on Mastodon? How do I unfollow them?
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Why does it say “Pending” when I try to follow someone on Mastodon?
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What does the padlock 🔒 mean next to people’s names on Mastodon?
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Why does it say “Follow request sent” when the account I want to follow doesn’t have follow requests switched on?
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What kind of accounts can I follow from Mastodon?
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How to be notified when someone posts
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How to avoid accidentally unfollowing, boosting or deleting in Mastodon
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What are the Home, Local and Federated timelines? How do I stop them scrolling so quickly?
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How do I browse the Local timelines of other servers? Can I follow other servers’ Local timelines on my account?
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Using the Lists feature on Mastodon
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Browsing the Media tab
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Browsing a Mastodon account’s posts that use a particular hashtag
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Following accounts through RSS
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Customising your Mastodon interface colours
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Customising your notifications
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How to activate the Mastodon Advanced Web Interface
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Using Mastodon through a keyboard
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Setting your language preferences and filtering out posts in other languages
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Is there a built-in language translation system on Mastodon?
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What are “original pages”? Why are they so useful? How do I see a post on its own server?
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It keeps asking me to log in again and again! What is “remote following” on the Fediverse? How do I avoid it being so cumbersome?
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When I visited an account the profile was blank with no posts. Is it really blank? I’m sure there are posts there but I can’t see them.
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Which posts and accounts can I see from my server? How do I make my server notice posts and accounts that it can’t currently see?
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Why doesn’t every Fediverse server show all posts ever made by all users from all other servers?
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Do I need to use my real name or real photo?
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How do I report a post? How do I report a person?
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How do I contact the person who runs my server? How do I find out what the rules are on my server?
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Blocking and muting people on Mastodon
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Filtering your timeline
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How do I mute notifications from a thread that I don’t want to take part in?
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How to hide your follows and followers
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Hiding posts from search engines
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Using Content Warnings (CWs)
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How to prevent your account being suggested to others
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Using Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on Mastodon
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Is Mastodon end-to-end encrypted?
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Authorized Fetch
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Creating an isolated server
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How do I use Mastodon through a screen reader?
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How do I make posts more accessible to blind people?
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How do I make posts more accessible to deaf people?
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How do I remember to add text descriptions?
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How do I add a text description through Mastodon’s edit feature? I forgot, and edit won’t let me add it afterwards!
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How can Mastodon server administrators automatically remind their users to add text descriptions?
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Mastodon API: Using Mastodon apps with non-Mastodon accounts
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BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading
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Importing your data into BookWyrm from GoodReads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre
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Friendica: A flexible Fediverse server type with long posts
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GoToSocial: Safe and lightweight
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microblog.pub: Fediverse servers for individual users
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Mobilizon: Event organisation and discovery
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OwnCast: Live streaming and chat on the Fediverse
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PeerTube: Video hosting on the Fediverse
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PixelFed: Photo sharing on the Fediverse
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Finding people to follow on PixelFed
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WordPress: Turning your blog into a Fediverse server
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Write Freely: Long-form writing platform for the Fediverse
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How do I create my own server?
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What do I call my server? What kind of domain name or subdomain should I use?
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Customising your Mastodon server’s appearance
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Using custom emoji on your server
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Recommending accounts to new users on your server
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Using relays to quickly expand your server’s view of the Fediverse
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