Mastodon Tips and Tricks

I'm not going to go on about the whys and wherefores surrounding getting started with Mastodon. I'll include some links at the end of this that go over all that.

I started to collect information to write this post and came across this excellent post: 10 quick Mastodon tips. It is a great overview and includes some nice graphics to explain things. I highly recommend reading it to familiarize yourself with how Mastodon works.

These tips and tricks are for once you've set up your account and now need to know what to get things done. They are a bit redundant if you read the link above but I'll leave them here anyway. I plan to add to this page as I find other useful tips.

Tips for Twitter Users

• Add your Mastodon link to your Twitter profile
  • The format for this is @yourusername@yourmastodonserver. For example, mine is @techlifeweb@indieweb.social
• Find your Twitter follow/followers on Mastodon
  • An easy way to do this is to use debirdify. debirdify uses the Twitter API to find any users you follow that are on Mastodon. All you do is authorize debirdify to access your Twitter account and it cans through looking for links to Mastodon in Twitter profiles (this is why it is important to link to Mastodon in your Twitter profile as above)
• Enable a Tweetdeck-like interface on your laptop
  • Open Mastodon and then click Preferences > Appearance then check "Enable advanced web interface"
  • If you then click on a hashtag or search for one a new column will open. If you want to make that new column a permanent part of your interface, click the 'Show Settings' button at the top of the column. Then click Pin.
    • Once you pin it you can open the column settings again and add more hashtags. You can have it include any or all additional hashtags or block tweets that include certain hashtags.

Other things

• Language preferences
  • In Mastodon's web interface and click on Other, you'll see a list of languages at the bottom you can use to control which posts you'll see.
• There is an RSS feed of your posts aka Toots
  • You can find it

    [https://](https:)[server.name]/@[username].rss

How to follow a hashtag on Mastodon with RSS

Useful Links

• Switching From Twitter to Mastodon | avoidthehack!
• Sharing advice and assisting with the great Mastodon migration | by Mastodon Migration | Nov, 2022 | Medium
• A Resource For Figuring Out The Fediverse - SethGoldstein.me

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