Notices by Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social), page 38

@chrishering33

What exactly do you do when you hide a post in Ivory? What's the name of the option you select to do that?

@taur10

Do you mean a scheduler? Or something else?

@azraph

I don't know of anything like that, I am guessing anything which sends hundreds of identical DMs might trigger spam filters anyway?

@patillas @Ruth_Mottram @micron

Just to clarify, your posts don't disappear when you switch servers. They still exist on your old server, and when people click to see who wrote them they will be redirected to your new account profile.

@bytebro @ScienceGirl

Yes, welcome! 👋

And there's also a website full of tips for beginners at https://fedi.tips

@historyshapes

I'm not sure, but if you need a professional system you could try the free versions of publer or buffer to see if they support it?

@Crystal_Fish_Caves

It's not quite the same situation, because instagram, facebook etc don't use chronological timelines.

Scheduling posts on Fedi is more about reaching people who are awake when you are asleep etc.

@Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux

By the way, to edit your ordinary Masto notifications, click the slider icon in the top right corner of the notifications column.

@Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux

That section marked "notifications" within preferences is only for email notifications.

The notifications within Mastodon are controlled from the Notifications section outside preferences.

I agree this is confusing!

@Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux

You need to untick all of those boxes if you want to stop all the email notifications? Also you need to press the save changes button at the top right after you've unticked them.

@Eagain

Some people need to do announcements to reach specific time zones, and it's especially important on here as the timelines are chronological.

I don't think it's fair to assume scheduled posts are spam.

Do you want to schedule your posts on Mastodon? There are many options you can use to do this.

Some third party apps including Tusky and Fedilab have a built-in scheduling option. Fedilab also runs a website at https://plan.fedilab.app which lets you schedule posts.

If you want a professional scheduled post management system, there are third party commercial services such as https://publer.io and https://buffer.com that now include Mastodon compatibility.

@azraph

Mastodon has a built-in invitation system, more info about that here: https://fedi.tips/inviting-people-onto-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

As for DMing people, you'll have to message them on other platforms because by definition they won't be on here yet.

You could for example generate an invitation link and post this on your social media elsewhere (Facebook, Twitter etc)? You can generate links that work for multiple people. That way you don't have to send out lots of messages either.

@markgrieveson

Okay, glad to hear it!

By the way, Privacy Badger works well alongside Ublock Origin, and they both play nicely with the Fediverse 👍

@aliza @skry

@elk is still in early testing, you can use it but it isn't guaranteed to work yet.

@Linux_Is_Best

Exactly, these videos all work outside Mastodon too!

@dameoutlaw @alienghic

Yeah, there is good stuff on PeerTube, it's just sometimes difficult to find!

@JoFloHK

Brilliant! Glad to hear 👍

@SmartmanApps

It would hide all the boosts, including if they boost their own post.

But it would not hide the original post, you would still see the original post in the timeline from when it was originally made.

And it wouldn't hide it if other people boost it.

@markgrieveson

Do you mean boosts of posts written by them? Or posts by others that they boost?