🎺.☕️ guide for new Mastodon users!
- Toots are tweets, it's fun to say
- The Local timeline contains only toots from this instance
- The Federated timeline contains local toots PLUS toots from anyone else in the fediverse who is followed by at least one person on this instance and is not blocked
- The more people you follow, the more toots will show up in your "Home" view which eventually becomes the primary thing you use
- Paste a URL into the Search box to easily follow/boost/reply
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@strevat Oh yeah, good time to mention:
Mastodon has a bug where if you reply to a CW you need to un-tick CW again. C'mon folks we are webdevs, we can fix this thing: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
@nolan very much enjoy this. Hope I can help!
Even moar 🎺.☕️ tips!
Cool tooters to follow (yes we say tooters):
- https://mastodon.social/@sarahjeong
- https://mastodon.social/@bcrypt
- https://mastodon.social/@plsburydoughboy
- https://witches.town/@Alda
- https://witches.town/@sophia
- https://toot.cat/@polymerwitch
If you "remote follow" someone on another instance, the UI is a bit awkward for security reasons, but if you paste the URL into the Search then it tends to be a bit easier. This applies to toots as well.
@nolan For the URL search you _need_ to add https://, otherwise you should write it as “@polymerwith@toot.cat” for search to work.
@surma Ah good point, yes you can just type at-username-at-url into the search and that works fine to find people. But the full URL works too!
@nolan How do boosts work in this sort of setting? If I boost someone's private tweet, what happens?
@nolan PRIVATE TOOT DANGIT NOOO
@Salomao You cannot boost private toots. But you can fav them! You can also fav DMs. 😁
@nolan is there a reason why replies/timelines/etc often don't load from my instance? Proxy lagging? Instant-federation not coded up yet?
@will Yes you don't always see *remote* favs/boosts/etc., see my thread trying to explain this: https://twitter.com/nolanlawson/status/850175618058665984
Moar 🎺.☕️ Mastodon tips!
A toot has 4 privacy settings, which you can configure by clicking the globe:
- Public
- Public, but not on the local/federated timeline (good for stuff you don't think is general interest, I make this my default)
- Private to followers
- Private only to those mentioned in the toot (DM)
You can add a Content Warning (CW) for things like trigger warnings, politics, stuff that may not be of general interest, and (my fav) punchlines! The next toot shows a CW in action: