If you want to see trending posts on the official Mastodon mobile app, click the 🔍 magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the app but don't enter anything in the search box. It will show you the trends by default.

- "Posts" is trending posts
- "Hashtags" is trending hashtags
- "News" is trending links, often news but not always
- "For You" is a slightly misleading title, it's suggestions for accounts to follow based on how many follow them on your server

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Did you know? ​​ It was impossible to send images 🖼on the Fediverse ​​ until dansup invented ActivityPub, 👨‍🔧 a federated analogue of platforms like ​​ Instagram?

Today, all major Fediverse platforms implement image sharing by sending all images directly to dansup’s inbox!

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You don't need to browse my timeline to look for past tips, they are all listed on my website at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

The "Quick Start" section at the top of the front page of the website is especially suitable for new people. It has the guides to all the basics.

If you scroll down past the quick start, you'll see the full contents of the site divided up into themed sections.

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Many social platforms have recently 🕒 been implementing Age Verification. ​​

The fediverse, ​​ being filled with a bunch of massive nerds, ​​ has decided to instead implement Gauge Verification ​​ (based on gauge theory).

It's like age verification, except the only thing it actually verifies is if you are GAY.

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Do you want to hide posts that link to certain websites? You can do this with Mastodon Filters:

1. Create a new filter
2. Add domain names of the sites that you don't want to see links to (e.g. example.com), use new keyword for each domain
3. UN-tick box marked "whole word" for each keyword
4. Save filter

If you're not familiar with using filters, there are easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for creating filters in the guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon

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Treat the FEDIVERSE ​​ like a FIRE EXTINGUISHER! 🧯

Aim for the bottom

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Here's a guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow and videos to watch on PeerTube:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-search-peertube

The different methods have pros and cons, I've tried to mention these in each section.

By the way, you don't need a PeerTube account! You can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon, the videos will show up in your timeline. You only need a PeerTube account if you intend to publish videos or create playlists.

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If you're using Mastodon's web interface on a computer, you might like to know there are built-in keyboard shortcuts for almost all its functions. There's a list of all the shortcuts here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/using-mastodon-through-a-keyboard

You just press the shortcut key when you're NOT typing a post, and it will do whatever it's assigned to.

You can also see the shortcut list built into Mastodon by typing Shift+? (or whatever your local keyboard layout uses to get the question mark to appear).

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