How To Use Mastodon and the Fediverse: Advanced Tips

Following hashtags

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How do I verify my account?

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My website verfication doesn’t work! The address won’t turn green!

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Using multiple accounts

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Using the Lists feature on Mastodon

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What does the padlock 🔒 mean next to people’s names on Mastodon?

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Choosing a good username for the Fediverse

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I’ve written a link but it isn’t clickable. How do I make it clickable?

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Customising your notifications

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Crossposting between Mastodon and Twitter

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What are “original pages”? Why are they so useful?

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It keeps asking me to log in again and again! What is “remote following” on the Fediverse? How do I avoid it being so cumbersome?

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How do I see a profile or post on its home server?

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How do I interact with posts that haven’t federated to my server?

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Browsing the Media tab

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How do I mute notifications from a thread that I don’t want to take part in?

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Hiding someone’s boosts without blocking or muting them

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How to avoid accidentally unfollowing, boosting or deleting in Mastodon

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Adjusting photo previews on Mastodon so they look nice

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Customising Mastodon polls to allow multiple selections

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Creating draft posts

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Some people seem to have much bigger character limits than me? What’s going on?

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How do I browse the Local timeline on another server?

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Switching off automatic timeline scrolling

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Don’t use dots / full stops / periods in usernames

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When I visited an account the profile was blank with no posts. Is it really blank? I’m sure there are posts there but I can’t see them.

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It’s a good idea to have at least some followers before posting your best content

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Which posts and accounts can I see from my server? How do I make my server notice posts and accounts that it can’t currently see?

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Why doesn’t every Fediverse server show all posts ever made by all users from all other servers?

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Maybe a server could backfill old posts when someone on the server follows an account for the first time?

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Using Mastodon through a keyboard

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Typing emoji through a keyboard on Mastodon

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How to activate the Mastodon Advanced Web Interface

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What is a bot account, and how do I mark my account as one?

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Embedding posts on your website

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Following accounts through RSS

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Why does it say “Follow request sent” when the account I want to follow doesn’t have follow requests switched on?

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Seeing the first ever posts by a Mastodon account

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