If someone is asking for help with using this place, could you let them know about my account, and also let them know about my website? I'm totally unofficial so people only find out about me by worth of mouth 🙂

I have a website full of easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

The section at the top of the site marked "Quick Start" is especially designed for new people who want to find out the basics.

Thanks! 🙏

#FediTips

Servers described as "Glitch Mastodon" or "Hometown Mastodon" work just like Mastodon but have additional features such as larger post sizes, rich text formatting or local-only posts.

Mastodon's server software is free and open source, so programmers can tweak it to make their own versions. (Untweaked Mastodon is often called "Vanilla Mastodon".)

You can find good Glitch and Hometown servers to join or move to at:

➡️ https://fedi.garden/tag/glitch-mastodon

➡️ https://fedi.garden/tag/hometown-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

Can someone please help me block #uspol on Mastodon? And not simply block the hashtag only, but all posts related to US politic generally? I'm fucking over it.

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#PeerTube is the community-owned Fediverse alternative to YouTube.

You can help PeerTube grow by going to https://fedi.video and watching some videos, this lets the video makers know they have an audience 🙂

Even better, you can follow video makers from Mastodon:

1. Click the video maker's name on Fedi.Video to go to their profile page
2. Click on ⧉ on the profile page
3. Paste into the search box in Mastodon, then click follow

This lets video makers know they have followers.

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Screenshot of a PeerTube video maker's channel page viewed through a PeerTube website. The ⧉ icon has been highlighted and there is a caption below it saying "Click on the ⧉ and then paste it into search box in Mastodon etc to follow".

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Screenshot of a Mastodon website where the channels' address from the previous screenshot has been pasted into the search box. The search result is the PeerTube channel we saw in the previous screenshot, and there is a follow button next to it. There is a caption below it saying "Click Follow to follow the channel or account".

Você sabia que dá pra ler threads aqui do mastô como se fosse um post contínuo de um blog? É só copiar o link* e colar na caixa de texto na home do site https://mastoreader.io/, clicar "Unroll" e pronto! Agora pode ler tranquilamente inclusive o alt text das imagens.

*Pode ser que só funcione com fios de perfis abertos, eu não sei dizer

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