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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:10:15 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   TIMELINE TIPS

   If your timeline is too empty, try using these methods to find interesting accounts to follow:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

   If you're following so many people that you keep missing posts by certain accounts, use the notification bell:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-be-notified-when-someone-posts-on-mastodon/

   If your timeline is generally too full, use Lists to split it into mini-timelines:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/

   If there are some things you don't want to see on your timeline, use Filters:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 07:27:53 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • SpaceLifeForm

     @SpaceLifeForm

     Yes! But I couldn't fit it in the characters of the post 😁

   • SpaceLifeForm (spacelifeform@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 07:27:54 JST SpaceLifeForm

     in reply to

     @feditips

     I would add hiding boosts as an option.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 07:29:25 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Kevin Hughes 🐝

     @kev

     Thanks, good suggestion!

   • Kevin Hughes 🐝 (kev@mcr.wtf)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 07:29:26 JST Kevin Hughes 🐝

     in reply to

     @feditips I was wondering about the section about finding people to follow where you suggest searching. Sometimes I'll go and search on a bigger server (usually mastodon.social) so I find new people not on my own, small, server. I don't know if there's a way to add something like that without losing the lovely clear and simple language you use though.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:51:41 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • PLASTIC = DEATH

     @CoffeeClicker

     Are they nice and calm?

   • PLASTIC = DEATH (coffeeclicker@toot.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:51:42 JST PLASTIC = DEATH

     in reply to

     @feditips Just love empty timelines

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:53:18 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Mike Fraser :Jets:

     @mike

     Yeah, you can opt into Mastodon full text search without opting into search engine indexing by Google etc. They're two separate options.

   • Mike Fraser :Jets: (mike@thecanadian.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:53:19 JST Mike Fraser :Jets:

     in reply to

     @feditips And if you're on 4.2 try search. It works wonderfully well. Also opt into search. You're not supporting surveillance capitalism if you do, you're just making it easier for everyone here to discover your content.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:54:48 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Hawkmoon

     @Hawkmoon

     The Local on your server isn't very local because your server is far too large.

     If you move to a different server, especially a themed server, you'll get a more local feel on the Local feed.

   • Hawkmoon (hawkmoon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:54:49 JST Hawkmoon

     in reply to

     @feditips

     Here's my secret method:

     Go to the search icon at the bottom.

     Now you have choices of: posts, hashtags, news, local, and for you.

     Click on local.

     My local is packed out with people speaking in nine different languages. It doesn't seem to be very local at all, and I am instantly reminded that there are Mastodonians from all over the world.

     In among the languages I don't speak, there's an eclectic selection of English speakers.

     I don't do it too often, but I enjoy it there.

   • S★m V★rm★ (samvarma@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:56:38 JST S★m V★rm★

     in reply to

     @feditips Know you of a tool to sort by recent activity, i.e. downrank search results if someone hasn't posted in [timeframe]? Thank you!

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 18:56:38 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • S★m V★rm★

     @samvarma

     I don't know of such a tool for search results, sorry.

     Nearest I can think is you can order your follows and followers by recent activity if you go to Preferences > Follows & Followers when logged in on the website interface.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 19:01:45 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Hawkmoon

     @Hawkmoon

     Okay, fair enough! 😁

   • Hawkmoon (hawkmoon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 19:01:46 JST Hawkmoon

     in reply to

     @feditips

     That's OK. I like it!