Notices by Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social), page 62

@HistoPol

Yeah, searches have always been available for your own posts, as there's no privacy or safety problem in someone seeing their own posts 👍

@HistoPol

Hashtags are not opt in, because the assumption is people will only use hashtags if they want the post to be found in searches for that tag.

@flohw

Great! 😁

Just to be clear, pin column was around before but hiding posts from lists is new 👍

@Ruhrnalist

As far as I know, the accounts they don't follow would not be added to their list.

@HistoPol

I run an unofficial FAQ for Mastodon from a user perspective at https://fedi.tips

There is a quick start guide at the top of the page, and below that are lots more beginners' questions answered.

The complete list of parameters is here https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

@nefoun_qu_jw @flohw

The reason they require following people you add to a list was because on Twitter trolls and bullies were using lists to manage lists of victims.

By requiring you to follow them, people can control who has them on a list and block people if required.

@Ruhrnalist

No, but you can hide the posts of a particular list from your Home timeline so you'll only see the posts on the list.

See the last item on this page for instructions on how to hide the posts:

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

@AntimonySchnuck

Lists export has been around for ages.

Lists import is new.

So, this is the first time people can use it to transfer their lists from one server to another.

(And no, I've no idea why they had lists export with no import option previously.)

@BOOKidealist

If you click the #Explore link on bookstodon and then "hashtags" you'll see the same thing as trending.

@BOOKidealist

Yes, the v number is the version. Bookstodon is on 4.2.0 which is the latest version 👍

@BOOKidealist

If you go to the server's website it will mention the version number at the bottom left corner in desktop mode.

If you're on a phone, you can see the version number by going to the server's About page and the version number will be at the bottom of that.

I can see you're on bookstodon.com so if you go to the website's About page at https://bookstodon.com/about you can check the version.

@flohw

The options have only just been introduced a few days ago on Mastodon 4.2.0 so I think not many people know about them! 😁

@flohw

You can use Mastodon's advanced web interface to have as many columns as you want:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface/

You can pin lists open in their own separate columns.

You can't add people you don't follow to lists, but you can hide lists posts from your Home timeline:

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

(See the instructions at the bottom.)

@gunchleoc @ButterflyOfFire

Ahh, yeah, that's possible!

Another nice thing from the Mastodon 4.2.0 update:

You can now export and import Lists, and take your Lists with you when you transfer accounts to another server! 🎉

There are instructions for the export and import process in steps 5 and 6 of the full account transfer process:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

(The Lists import feature is only on servers running 4.2.0 or above, so you can't do this if you're transferring to a server running an older version.)

#FediTips #MastoTips #Mastodon #Lists

@bosquebill

Thanks for the headsup about this problem.

If you have the time and the inclination, would be interesting to see if you can try it with Firefox?

@bosquebill

I'm just trying the advanced interface and not noticing any issues. No stuttering, and notifications are coming through fine.

I wonder if this is a Safari problem?

@bosquebill

Yeah, I would restart everything to see if it's some kind of temporary glitch. Haven't seen anything like that here.

@bosquebill @kerrytani

Did turning off the autoplay GIFs correct all that?

@kerrytani @bosquebill

Is this on the default web interface?