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If you prefer this in video form, I’ve created a screencast that shows the steps to get verified on Mastodon: When you look at someone’s profile on Mastodon, you might see that they hav…

An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon. Contribute to joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

A thorough introduction to Mastodon

Things to expect when hosting your own Mastadon server

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And that’s great. It’s also the return of Google Reader! Mastodon is really confusing for newcomers. There are memes about it. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, …

Like many in the past week, I have been having a serious look at Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter.

While it’s cool to host your own Mastodon server, it’s not really efficient. A simple thing you can do, however, is to make it easier for others to discover your presence, if they already know your website. Try it out – search for “johnmu@johnmu.com” in your Mastodon instance. Also, click “follow” for SEO tips & other bad takes. Why is hosting your own instance inefficient? In short, sending updates between users (followers, followees) means connections between their individual servers, and if everyone has their own server, it’s a lot of network activity.

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Everyone knows this old saying: If you need to expain a joke, it ain’t funny. Unfortunately, Mastodon is one of those things that need some explaining. I…

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There has recently been a huge rush of people trying out Mastodon. This is also noticeable in the number of people reading my earlier Mastodon Guide. I wanted to take this opportunity to provide a brief list of usage tips that I wish I had at hand when first setting

Nikodemus’ Guide to Mastodon by Nikodemus Siivola @nikodemus@kamu.social, updated 2022-11-08. Read time 20-30 min Mastodon is a microblogging social network somewhat similar to Twitter, or your Facebook timeline. In some ways it is akin to Twitter 10 years ago. It isn’t a Twitter clone, and d...

New to Mastodon? Here are some guides I've found useful for figuring it all out. Top 10 tips: https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/ Longer guide: https://axbom.com/mastodon-guide/ Feditips 🦣 for beginners: https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/ Nikodemus' Guide to 🦣: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit# Notes from a Data Witch: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/ #feditips #TwitterMIgration #Twexit #IrishTwitter #IrishMastodon

Diagrams 2.0 Macaw , the biggest update to our app, has just been released. In addition to optimizations for macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon Macs, it introduces a lot of new functionality. In this post, we’ll explore the most significant addition: palettes. For a detailed overview of all features a

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This TIL is mainly a rehash of these two articles by Jacob and Andrew: - [Setting up a personal Fediverse ID / Mastodon instance](https://jacobian.org/til/my-mastodon-instance/) - Jacob Kaplan-Moss -

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There’s a heckuva lot of confusion about the suddenly popular Mastodon—particularly regarding server onboarding. Maybe we can help.