If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.

Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.

Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.

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Have you ever seen a post or thread that you want to look at again after a certain amount of time?

There is a Fediverse reminder bot which you can use to remind you about a particular thread after a specified time period (it can be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years later).

To use the bot, reply to the post or thread you want reminding about, mentioning the bot's account with the amount of time you want. More info and instructions in the guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm

This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.

If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

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You can automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags or emoji by using Mastodon's Filters feature. Filters can be set to either hide posts completely or hide them behind a content warning.

Lots more info on how to use Mastodon's filters in the guide at:

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

Hopefully this guide covers all the most commonly asked questions about filters. If there's something missing, please let me know in the replies 🙂

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