Hey, does anybody know what this means? These turn up periodically in my mentions. I'd assumed they were a notification obscured by a filter or something, but when I click on them, they just go away. No additional notification appears or anything.

(When I do block topics or people, I try always to click "Hide completely," not "Hide with a warning", & I think I always leave "Notifications" unclicked in Contexts.)

(Could this be a server-level filter?)

@FediTips

#FediTips

A friendly reminder that when you Boost a post, you push a copy to the fediverse service of every account that follows you. Making it discoverable in searches to everyone else on those services. If you wouldn't print it out and post it on a public noticeboard, maybe don't Boost it.

If you want to draw attention to a shitty post for purposes of criticism, maybe just link to it in a post where you make your criticism?

#FediTips

Hey, @FediTips.

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all that you do for fedi. Truly. I’m not sure how many people stop to say thank you, and I wanted to make sure you heard it.

Thank you. 🫶🏻

P.S. If you’re new here, Follow FediTips.

#FediTips #Mastodon #Introduction #NewHere #FollowTuesday

Hey, @FediTips.

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all that you do for fedi. Truly. I’m not sure how many people stop to say thank you, and I wanted to make sure you heard it.

Thank you. 🫶🏻

P.S. If you’re new here, Follow FediTips.

#FediTips #Mastodon #Introduction #NewHere #FollowTuesday

@mattwilcox @scottjenson
@Hawaii

CWs are different from filters.

I call them „Content Wrappers“. And I like them because they give me a choice whether I feel able to view that post •today• or not. Because depending on my energy level, that may vary. One day I may want to see your close-up spider picture, the next day please no.

Content wrappers give me time to take a breath and brace myself. They do not require me to filter out the whole post, but let me view it at my own pace.

Just two more examples:

as an autistic person, I find portraits with eye contact *extremely* distracting. I love a content wrapper around one so that I can read the posts next to it, unwrap the picture and appreciate it, and then wrap it up again to continue reading.

Food pictures can be hard when I’m hungry and can’t eat. A wrapper around it helps.
Food is also really difficult to filter out, so many different words. I want to see your chickens, but alive and well, for example, not on your plate.

So a CW has a different purpose than a filter, and there are good reasons for the fedi to have both in its toolbox.

#feditips

Are you in #tech and running your own #Fediverse instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!

My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like #Linux, #BSD, #Ansible, #Proxmox, #Coding, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using #Pleroma, #snac ( #snac2), #Mastodon and its forks 🙂

#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips

Are you in #tech and running your own #Fediverse instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!

My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like #Linux, #BSD, #Ansible, #Proxmox, #Coding, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using #Pleroma, #snac ( #snac2), #Mastodon and its forks 🙂

#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips

Here is my periodic reminder: block and mute early and often. You get to decide what your experience here looks like. You get to decide whom you want to interact with. There are literally millions of people here. You will not miss one of them.
For me personally, if the first time somebody tags me is annoying, it will probably also be the last.
Follow people early and often too! You can always unfollow later. The fediverse is what you make of it. Following lots of people is essential.
#FediTips

Here is my periodic reminder: block and mute early and often. You get to decide what your experience here looks like. You get to decide whom you want to interact with. There are literally millions of people here. You will not miss one of them.
For me personally, if the first time somebody tags me is annoying, it will probably also be the last.
Follow people early and often too! You can always unfollow later. The fediverse is what you make of it. Following lots of people is essential.
#FediTips

Quick message to all fediverse newcomers:

Moderation in the fediverse is done by humans. There are no bots that shadowban you based on detecting certain keywords. This has some important consequences:

1. If you see a rule-breaking post, click the "report" button and write a report. The actual living, breathing creatures who run your instance will review the report.

The location of the report button varies depending on your client/app software: it's usually near "reply" or "boost."

2. The text you write in a report matters, because it will be read by an actual person. The mods are not just counting the number of reports.

3. If you're talking about a sensitive topic like suicide, you should not bleep it out like "sui-de". You won't be banned for typing the actual word out. You should instead use a content warning for your post to warn your readers. Some users who don't wish to see certain topics can voluntarily apply word filters to their own timelines, and bleeping words is rude because it bypasses their filters.

#FediTips

the first thing you should probably do after you get set up here is go into your settings and UNCHECK the box that says "don't ever show my posts to anyone under any circumstances"

this can help a lot if you're looking for a more traditional social media experience

#feditips

My only FediTip for the day is to follow @joybooster just because they boost fun, joyful things. Also was very pleasantly surprised to see they already boosted my Obituary for a Cookie post, but follow it anyway. Glad they focus on smaller accounts too! #Fediverse #FediTips #JoyScrolling #Joy #FediTip

My only FediTip for the day is to follow @joybooster just because they boost fun, joyful things. Also was very pleasantly surprised to see they already boosted my Obituary for a Cookie post, but follow it anyway. Glad they focus on smaller accounts too! #Fediverse #FediTips #JoyScrolling #Joy #FediTip

Quick message to all fediverse newcomers:

Moderation in the fediverse is done by humans. There are no bots that shadowban you based on detecting certain keywords. This has some important consequences:

1. If you see a rule-breaking post, click the "report" button and write a report. The actual living, breathing creatures who run your instance will review the report.

The location of the report button varies depending on your client/app software: it's usually near "reply" or "boost."

2. The text you write in a report matters, because it will be read by an actual person. The mods are not just counting the number of reports.

3. If you're talking about a sensitive topic like suicide, you should not bleep it out like "sui-de". You won't be banned for typing the actual word out. You should instead use a content warning for your post to warn your readers. Some users who don't wish to see certain topics can voluntarily apply word filters to their own timelines, and bleeping words is rude because it bypasses their filters.

#FediTips

#FediTips #FediMeta @moderation is it possible to recover an old notification from a potentially deleted / blocked account? Some stochastic terrorist sent me a threatening message in regard to "gangstalking" that I'd like to retain for analysis but I made the mistake of swiping away my Android notification drawer so now it's gone 🤦‍♀️

The assertion was that "it's real" and that "people on reddit.com/x (IIRC) are talking about me.

RE https://kolektiva.social/@pospi/115247259782862935
CC @jwcph @pluralistic

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#FediAlgo (the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed) v1.2.2 is deployed now. Has a switch that makes sure any #hashtags / users / etc. that you follow are displayed as filter options even if they don't meet the minimum number of recent toots threshold.

Also a bunch of bug fixes and small improvements.

* Try it here: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action (slightly outdated): https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #GoToSocial #hashtag #hashtags #javascript #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonApi #mastohelp #mastojs #node #nodejs #opensource #socialmedia #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #typescript #webdev

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#FediAlgo (the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed) v1.2.2 is deployed now. Has a switch that makes sure any #hashtags / users / etc. that you follow are displayed as filter options even if they don't meet the minimum number of recent toots threshold.

Also a bunch of bug fixes and small improvements.

* Try it here: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action (slightly outdated): https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #GoToSocial #hashtag #hashtags #javascript #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonApi #mastohelp #mastojs #node #nodejs #opensource #socialmedia #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #typescript #webdev

To anyone like me who is not tech minded but on the fediverse, I urge you to discover the power of filters.

It has taken me two years or more to realise that 'no algorithm' means that you need to curate your feed. They are easy to use, but, my word, afterwards you have a much better time.

I find that there is so much repetition of the same message, whether it is pictures of cats, complainants about a right wing figure being racist, or the ongoing danger of covid. A simple filter on the common hashtags and, voilà, a much richer experience. I'm sure that there are other uses, but that works for me.

I'd also like to see more use of hashtags to aid discovery. I'd love it if the culture was to tag the name of anyone discussed. That way I could follow the names of obscure writers, thinkers and artists and find my people. That is as important as alttext for me.

#Fediverse, #FediTips, #Hashtag, #Filter