Notices by Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social), page 6

@FlockOfCats

Thank you Flock of 👍

Reminder that you don't need to use your real/legal name on here. You can call yourself whatever you want (as long as you're not impersonating someone else).

You also don't need to have a photo of yourself, or any photo at all. Blind users often don't use photos on profiles, so don't be surprised if you see a profile with an empty space. An empty picture is not a sign of a spammer on here.

The only info you need when signing up is a working email address, and only your server's admin sees it.

@SusanHR

You might find the "Groups" feature more useful for that kind of thing?

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/

The Lists feature is meant more for organising your timelines into mini-timelines.

@ben @Literature_Geek

Thanks for the shouout 🙏

Yeah, have a look at the site, and if you have any questions feel free to ask!

It's not specifically for academics, but I hope articles like how to discover people (https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/) and how to be discovered (https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-followers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/) would help with building networks.

@ralesk @PepperTheVixen

Boosting and favouriting are 100% fine! It's really nice to see if someone appreciates your post and/or wants to share it.

AFAIK the people claiming favouriting was "useless" were those who were more used to algorithm-driven sites, and were disappointed to find out the Fediverse didn't have algos.

@nellie_m @reginagrogan

Hey Regina, sorry to hear that.

Have you tried emailing your admin instead of messaging them? The public email address for your server is staff@mastodon.social

Alternatively, have you tried the "forgot your password" link on the website's login page?

@SusanHR

If you write a public or followers-only post, everyone following you will see it. You don't need to mention them specifically.

Is this what you mean?

@stevenray

Does sound like one for @dansup ?

@SusanHR

You can only tag as many people as you can fit into a toot including the post itself. The character limit will restrict how many accounts you can tag.

@thegardendude @plantarum

Yeah, sounds like a particular server is being slow?

If you have another account on a different server, you can test this out to compare their speeds.

@oliphaunt

Aww, thanks for nice words about the guide 😁

By the way, in case it relates to what you want, there's a link in the other article to the github issue for following other instances: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6942

(This issue is one of the most popular requests ever on Mastodon.)

@oliphaunt

Some third party apps let you follow another server's "Local" timeline so you can more easily interact with it:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-browse-the-local-timelines-of-other-servers-on-mastodon-can-i-follow-other-servers-local-timelines-from-my-account/

I hope this is helpful?

@fakeplastictree

I'm not a sysadmin, I use a managed hosting provider for my instance, so I don't have expertise on bandwidth. I haven't had any specific bandwidth restrictions or estimations mentioned by my provider though.

The amount that p2p helps depends on whether people are viewing the same version of the same video at the same time. If they are, then the p2p system helps out, and you'll see this with the "peers" number going up on the video itself.

In case you missed it, you can turn any WordPress blog into a server on the Fediverse, so that people on Mastodon etc will be able to follow your blog.

There's lots of info on how to do this (plus common questions anwered) at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

The software that makes this possible is called "ActivityPub for WordPress", it's just been updated to v 1.3.0 now with support for threaded comments:

➡️ https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/111528228006760923

You can follow the software's lead developer at @pfefferle

@KeithAmmann @originalbarbas @newbiedm

There's a complete step-by-step guide to migrating your account at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/

@SusanHR @markgrieveson

No, there's no way to CW a boost because it might be misused to quote toot:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-content-warnings-cws-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

One suggested workaround is to have a CW reply to the thing you want to boost, and boost that reply.

Regarding videos specifically, they really ought to have their warning at the start of the video itself rather than just in the description. Videos that are embedded will not have a description, and warnings there will be missed.

@simonzerafa @specialmonkeytom

Hey there!

There's a list of all the ways to discover people to follow on here at: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

@chriswere

Not that numbers matter, but Chris is being very modest! His PeerTube account is one of the longest-running and most followed and viewed on the platform, might be in the Top 3?

p.s. If you want to see interesting PeerTube videos boosted on Mastodon etc, you can follow @FediVideo

@wreimers

Thank you! That's really generous, I'm very grateful 🙏

Thanks so much for the support! :blobhappy: