Just click on any post or reply to be taken to the original discussion thread it belongs to. This will show you the original post and its replies. Is there any way to see the most complete version of the … Continue reading →
Hashtags are words or phrases with the # symbol at the start. They are used in social media posts to indicate the topic of the post, and they make it easier for people interested in that topic to discover relevant … Continue reading →
Hashtags are words or phrases with the # symbol at the start. They are used in social media posts to indicate the topic of the post, and they make it easier for people interested in that topic to discover relevant … Continue reading →
No. There is no algorithm on Mastodon or other Fediverse server types. You can like and follow and share stuff freely without having to worry about it affecting what appears in your timeline. Your Home timeline simply shows all the … Continue reading →
This is slightly complicated to answer! Standard Mastodon doesn’t let users create rich text posts, but it does display rich text posts if they are created on other Fediverse platforms. There are also non-standard versions of Mastodon which do let … Continue reading →
⚠️ Please don’t use flashing images or animations in posts or profiles! This includes attachments and emoji, anything which produces a rapid series of flashes. Flashing images can be dangerous to people with certain neurological conditions ⧉, and it makes … Continue reading →
(If you want to block or mute individual accounts, please see the Blocking and Muting Accounts on Mastodon guide.) Ordinary individual users do not have any means to block entire servers on Mastodon. The only people who can block servers … Continue reading →
BookWyrm has a built-in catalogue of books, which is based on open data from WikiData ⧉ in collaboration with Inventaire ⧉. This data is collaboratively written by volunteers, just like Wikipedia, so it is huge but does also have gaps. … Continue reading →
⚠️ If you’re the admin of a Mastodon server, you might have noticed a server setting called “content cache retention period”. Do NOT put any numbers in this, just leave it blank! What happens if I put numbers in there? … Continue reading →
Each server is totally independent, and does updates on its own schedule. You may want to check which version of Mastodon a server is running, as this can let you know whether a new feature is available on that server. … Continue reading →
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