#MASTODON POST PRIVACY - who can see your post?
PUBLIC 🌏
Anyone can see and boost your post everywhere.
UNLISTED 🔓
✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
✅ On your profile
❌ Local and federated timelines
✅ Boostable
✅ Visible to admins
FOLLOWERS ONLY 🔐
✅ Tagged people
✅ Followers
❌ On your profile
❌ Local and federated timelines
❌ Boostable
✅ Visible to admins
DIRECT MESSAGE ✉️
✅ Tagged people
❌ Followers
❌ On your profile
❌ Local and federated timelines
❌ Boostable
✅ Visible to admins
~ HOW TO FIND COOL POSTS AND BOOST THEM ONTO YOUR SMALLER #MASTODON INSTANCE ~
1) Go to https://mastodon.social/tags/YOURTAGHERE (substitute in your tag at the end there).
2) Scroll 'til you find a good one, and right-click the timestamp, and click "Copy link address".
3) Head back to your own instance, paste that URL you just copied into the search box, and press enter.
4) BOOST!
A collection of things I made for people new to #Mastodon, based on questions I commonly see in the public timelines during influxes of new folks. :)
Privacy settings: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942218361780184
Local vs. federated timelines: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942225799392803
A two-way 🐘🐦 @crossposter:
https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br
How to find and interact with toots that haven't reached your instance yet: https://dev.glitch.social/@cassolotl/99942232570954068
Trending topics:
https://mastodon-tags-explorer.hcxp.co
@tagsexplorer
@cassolotl
by the way, you might be interested to hear about https://github.com/marnanel/un_chapeau . (@un_chapeau for updates.)
@marnanel I do not understand what it is!
@cassolotl it's a new codebase for a mastodon server, so that there's more than one available.
@marnanel I think my understanding of how things work here isn't good enough to really get it. Like, the closest thing I know to a programming language is a little HTML... :D Like, how is it different from vanilla Mastodon?
@cassolotl At present, all Mastodon instances run a single codebase. So a bug in that codebase leaves the whole system vulnerable.
This is a completely new codebase which should do the same thing.
Like GIMP and Photoshop do something like the same thing, but they're completely different code.
@marnanel OH for some reason I only just saw this! Thank you, that makes sense. Awesome, it sounds like a good idea!
@tagsexplorer @crossposter @cassolotl thank you for this 🙏🏽
@vaguemilk @tagsexplorer @crossposter You're welcome! :)
@cassolotl @tagsexplorer @crossposter
I didn't know about searching for timestamp urls. Thanks!
@RussSharek @crossposter @tagsexplorer I'm glad it helped! :)
@cassolotl @crossposter @tagsexplorer
Useful, but I haven't been able to find where the privacy settings *are* to change them. Also, I have this feature that says "Lists", but doesn't say what it does and isn't mentioned in any tutorials I can find. What are those things?
@Mafdet They're here, under the new toot box! :)
@Mafdet As for lists, that is not something I use so I have no idea. My impression from the Github issue list is that it's a bit convoluted, though. I'll tweet a request for info for you. :)
@cassolotl thanks for this! I created my account a few weeks ago but am still learning the ropes.
@chrisjniles You're welcome! :) I hope it helps with the settling in!
SOME #RESOURCES
A two-way #Mastodon-Twitter crossposter:
https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br
@crossposter
Trending topics:
https://mastodon-tags-explorer.hcxp.co/
@tagsexplorer
#FAQ