Mastodon

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My primary account was made in 2017 on mastodon.xyz and the instance appears to be down. Does anyone know what is going on with it? Is this a temporary thing or is it gone forever?

This is one from many examples.

I understand that this bot account mirrors the tweets into Mastodon, but how is it normal that it also mirrors the number of followers? Is it a bug?

If you check their followers list, they have a few hundreds at most.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/1032844

I'm looking for accounts posting random an silly stuff similar to twitter accounts

• fuckedupfoods
• There is no cat in this image
• medieval reactions
• crap taxidermy
• ancient memes
• PunHub

Any kind of light, shitposty, wholesome, meme or pun accounts.

I'm new to mastodon, never had twitter. But I'm open to trying something new after leaving reddit.

Mastodon looks like it has plenty of content but I want to browse it in a specific way and I can't figure out how. I don't really care to follow individual users, but I want to browse hashtags based on my interests.

It would be great if I could create a group of them to have custom feeds I could browse. For example: a hobby feed could consist of #3DPrinting #woodworking #diy #makers #diyprojects etc etc

The lists feature would be perfect if you were able to add hashtags to it. Maybe there is a non-native solution I haven't seen?

Hello, I want to switch to mastodon from twitter can anyone suggest me the best app on iOS to make the transition.

I know this has been the norm on Twitter, but I'm getting tired of seeing people use mock names like "Melon Usk", "the Muskrat" when referring to Elon Musk, or "the Cheetoh", "the Grump" when talking about Trump, and so on.

First of all, there is no need. There's no central authority in Mastodon who will hide your post because you criticize a notable person.

Second, if you don't want shills to find your post based on the person you criticize, you don't need to worry about it, this is precisely why full-text search is disabled on Mastodon: to protect you from dogpilers.

Third, because distorted names mess up people's filters. I know folks who explicitly add "Elon Musk" or "Trump" to their filters so these posts won't appear in their timelines. By trying to be clever, you accidentally make those people's online experiences worse.

Just use the actual name of the person you're criticizing or insulting and let the filters do their work.

BTW, if you're extra worried about people finding your post, just set your post's privacy mode to followers-only🔒.

Thank you.

Can you browse and post on Mastodon using lemmy? I have been able to suscribe to magazines on kbin from here- is the same true for mastadon's instances?

Like the number of character limitations, that sort of thing, or because they are posting here, are they then able to post more?

Android - I like Fedilab but it deleted my username/pw on upgrade. I have Tusky as a backup.

I’ve been working with the Mastodon project on developer relations, and started out by updating the list of known API libraries. I’d love to know what the developer community wants and needs and how I can best support them.

Note: my scope is the Mastodon API and materials around it, rather than Mastodon itself as an end-user product.