How To Use Mastodon and the Fediverse: Basic Tips

Which server should I join? How do I find out more about a server?

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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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Which apps can I use? Should I use the official app or a third party app?

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How do I log in through the website? Help, my password doesn’t work!

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What’s my account’s address? How do I follow other people’s addresses? How can people follow my address?

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Can I use my account to log in on other servers?

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How do I customise my profile? How do I upload a profile banner? How do I verify my account?

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How do I search for stuff?

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What about Likes and Re-Tweets? How do I do those in Mastodon? And what are Bookmarks?

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Who do I follow? How do I find interesting accounts to follow? How do I find my friends?

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Why does it say “Pending” when I try to follow someone on Mastodon?

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How do I follow hashtags? What does hashtag following mean?

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What kind of accounts can I follow from Mastodon?

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How do I get more followers?

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How to be notified when someone posts

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Where are the trending posts and hashtags?

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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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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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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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How do I edit 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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Favourites vs. Bookmarks in Mastodon

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Customising your Mastodon interface colours

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Inviting people onto 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 is the Local timeline? What is the Federated timeline?

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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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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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