Hey there, anyone want some help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
Reply (or send me a DM if you prefer) with your questions and I'll try to get you some answers 🙂
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This might be a question for the maintainer @astro@c3d2.social ?
@FediTips I’ve never really understood @mobilizon What’s the added value compared to other planners?
It means you can follow Mobilizon events/organisers from the Fediverse (through Mastodon etc) and their updates appear in your timeline.
Only the organisers of events need to sign up on Mobilizon, their audience on the Fediverse doesn't need to.
@FediTips are there instances for non-profits that allow for networking across Europe? And how do I go about posting longer texts - do I have to switch instances or is there another way?
There used to be an NGO-specific instance but as far as I can tell it's no longer operating.
If you want to find good reliable instances I run a site at https://fedi.garden/fedi-gardens-full-server-list/ and the official list is at https://joinmastodon.org/servers (both these sites have requirements for reliability & safety to be listed).
For longer texts, more info at https://fedi.tips/why-do-some-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-have-bigger-character-limits/
@FediTips What actually is selected to go in the "Trending" section? What makes a toot trendy? Is it trending in the instance or in the wider Fediverse?
It's trending amongst accounts that the instance is aware of. Different instances will have different trend lists because of this.
It's basically any recent toot getting lots of boosts from accounts that the instance has noticed (mostly its own accounts and accounts that its users have interacted with).
If a toot has been boosted by accounts that the instance has never heard of before, it will ignore those boosts for the purposes of calculating trends.
Is there any way to filter posts by language?
Yup, there's more info about it at https://fedi.tips/setting-your-language-preferences-on-mastodon-and-filtering-out-posts-in-other-languages/
@FediTips If there is a feature that is broken, for example the way quote toots don't entirely filter out blocked and muted accounts, what is the best way to raise this as a issue with the developers?
The Mastodon developers have two ways of giving them feedback:
https://community.joinmastodon.org - Their community forum, intended for a general audience
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues - Mastodon's Github issues section, intended for people comfortable with techy things
@FediTips I cant login to fedi.vieo with my mastodon creds. is that normal?
Is it possible to switch to another instance using the profile, whilst also transferring the posts and media? Thank you.
You can transfer your Mastodon account to another Mastodon instance. Your posts/media remain in existence on the old instance, but if you follow the instructions in the guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server the old posts will direct people to your new account.
GoToSocial has an experimental transfer system called Slurp which allows posts/media to be transferred fully to the new instance. However, it is still in testing.
@FediTips know of any engine/library/frameworks implementing fedi protocols, to allow quickly standing up a custom federated app?
I'm not sure exactly what you're aiming to build (an instance? a client?) and I'm not a dev either, but there are lots of Fedi-related platforms and tools listed at https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience
Maybe something there would match what you're looking for?
@FediTips probably an instance. I'm interested in making something much more flexible in functionality, but not sure if it's worth the work to develop vs sticking with mastodon. Thanks for the resource!
Hey, sorry, I just remembered a much better resource for what you're asking for!
ActivityPub.rocks has discussion forums and resources for devs using the ActivityPub protocol at https://activitypub.rocks
It covers any project that is related to the Fediverse.
@FediTips can you search in the browser for posts matching from a specific server? E.g. I want to search aus.social for “software”. The results seemed to be from all instances and I couldn’t find a good way to narrow it down.
As far as I know there's no way to search a particular instance's accounts. The nearest to this would be browsing the instance's Local timeline (aka "Live Feeds").
In case this is any help, there are many other options for narrowing searches listed at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/
Is there a way to follow a Lemmy community on mastodon and have it only "boost" the initial/main post and the comments just show up as replies on mastodon?
(I hope that makes sense)
Unfortunately I don't support Lemmy. Sorry.
@FediTips I followed @tag-solarpunk to get posts about solarpunk from a broader collection of servers and to have it act like a user instead of a hashtag so I could put it in lists. At some point, it has stopped giving me anything. I get plenty from the solarpunk tag directly but nothing through the relay. Any idea why it stopped? Maybe I've configured my mastodon instance incorrectly?