Tiny Mastodon Tip to Hide Topics 🫣

If you get tired of seeing some
topics in your Mastodon feeds,

Know that you can use "Filters"
to help you save your spoons.

HOW TO ❓

From the desktop web interface:

1. Go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu.

2. Click on "Filters" on the left-side menu.

3. At the top-right, click on the "Add new filter" button.

4. Give a name to your filter in the "Title" field at the top, for example "US Politics". This Title will be displayed instead of the post and you will have the option to click on the Title to reveal a filtered post in your feeds 👀

5. Select the options you prefer. I recommend selecting "Hide with a warning" at first. That way, you will see if your Filter works and get the option described above to see it ⚠️

6. In "KEYWORDS", add the hashtags, words, names, or expressions you wish to hide for this topic. Select "Whole word" on the right.

7. Click on "Add keyword" at the bottom to add as many hashtags, names, or words that you wish for a same topic

8. Click on "Save new filter".

9. Magic! 🥄✨

Bonus Tip! To help everyone's filters work, on Mastodon it's good to use uncensored names and hashtags in your posts. That way, people will be able to filter it out if they wish 💚

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Filters

Super Teeny-Tiny Mastodon Tip 🐘:

Friendly reminder to use CamelCase when using hashtags to make them accessible!✨

#TinyMastodonTip

Hello Mastodon Newcomers 🐘✨!

It seems there's a fresh wave of people joining or coming back to Mastodon this week ​🌊​​

If you feel a little lost,
I wrote this external guide that might help you, or that you can share with friends: https://controlaltdelete.technology/articles/the-mastodons-guide-to-the-fediverse.html

On this post, you will find links to each category of the guide separately: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109995537816857661

On this post, you will find a list of short Mastodon post-guides: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109323504324459171

For Fediverse tips all year long, you should follow the excellent @FediTips!

Welcome! ​✨

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New Privacy Guides tutorial ✅
by me:

This article is now a series of two articles on Privacy and Security on Mastodon.

This tutorial is a step-by-step guide
to help Mastodon users make the most of the privacy and security features the platform offers.

The first article of this series was divided to better segment the information for readers who might prefer to read or share each part independently.

How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon

#PrivacyGuides#Mastodon#Privacy#Security#Tutorial#Fediverse#TinyMastodonTip

New Privacy Guides tutorial ✅
by me:

This article is now a series of two articles on Privacy and Security on Mastodon.

This tutorial is a step-by-step guide
to help Mastodon users make the most of the privacy and security features the platform offers.

The first article of this series was divided to better segment the information for readers who might prefer to read or share each part independently.

How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon

#PrivacyGuides#Mastodon#Privacy#Security#Tutorial#Fediverse#TinyMastodonTip

New Privacy Guides article 🔒
by me:

While most social media rely on commercial models harvesting users' data to sell to advertisers,

Mastodon offers a human-centric alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.

This means better social connections, better controls, and better privacy!

The first part of this article discusses privacy and security on Mastodon.

The second part is a tutorial to guide you in making the most of Mastodon's security and privacy related features.

This tutorial includes how to:

• Enable multifactor authentication 🔑🔑

• Adjust privacy vs discovery 👀

• Select post visibility and access

• Verify yourself

• Delete and back up your data

• Block users and instances ⛔

• Opt out with hashtags #️⃣

• Move from one instance to another 🚀

I hope this helps you making the most of what Mastodon has to offers!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/

#PrivacyGuides#Mastodon#Fediverse#Privacy#Security#Tutorial#TheFutureIsFederated#TinyMastodonTip

New Privacy Guides article 🔒
by me:

While most social media rely on commercial models harvesting users' data to sell to advertisers,

Mastodon offers a human-centric alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.

This means better social connections, better controls, and better privacy!

The first part of this article discusses privacy and security on Mastodon.

The second part is a tutorial to guide you in making the most of Mastodon's security and privacy related features.

This tutorial includes how to:

• Enable multifactor authentication 🔑🔑

• Adjust privacy vs discovery 👀

• Select post visibility and access

• Verify yourself

• Delete and back up your data

• Block users and instances ⛔

• Opt out with hashtags #️⃣

• Move from one instance to another 🚀

I hope this helps you making the most of what Mastodon has to offers!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/

#PrivacyGuides#Mastodon#Fediverse#Privacy#Security#Tutorial#TheFutureIsFederated#TinyMastodonTip

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Quote Posts 📢

If your instance is already running the newly released version Mastodon 4.4,

Know that in preparation for the full implementation, the team has included a consent setting for the upcoming Quote Post feature.

While quoting a post will not
be available as a native feature until Mastodon 4.5 later this year, it's wonderful that you can adjust if you want in or not before it even arrives!

HOW TO❓

1. From the web interface, go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu. Then click on "Other" under the "Preferences" section

2. If your instance was newly updated, you should now see an option in "Posting Defaults" for "Who can quote" (see image below) 👇

Note: If the option isn't there, your instance has not updated to the version including it yet. Be patient, it will likely be added in the weeks to come.

3. From the "Who can quote" drop-menu, you can choose either "Everyone", "Followers and mentioned users", or "Only mentioned users"

4. Once the next version is released, you will be ready for Quote Posts! No matter your choices 💪

5. Enjoy the freedom of choosing the features you wish to participate in (or not)! 😌✨

For more information on Quote Posts, you can read Mastodon's announcement blog about it here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

#TinyMastodonTip#Mastodon#Fediverse#QuotePosts

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Quote Posts 📢

If your instance is already running the newly released version Mastodon 4.4,

Know that in preparation for the full implementation, the team has included a consent setting for the upcoming Quote Post feature.

While quoting a post will not
be available as a native feature until Mastodon 4.5 later this year, it's wonderful that you can adjust if you want in or not before it even arrives!

HOW TO❓

1. From the web interface, go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu. Then click on "Other" under the "Preferences" section

2. If your instance was newly updated, you should now see an option in "Posting Defaults" for "Who can quote" (see image below) 👇

Note: If the option isn't there, your instance has not updated to the version including it yet. Be patient, it will likely be added in the weeks to come.

3. From the "Who can quote" drop-menu, you can choose either "Everyone", "Followers and mentioned users", or "Only mentioned users"

4. Once the next version is released, you will be ready for Quote Posts! No matter your choices 💪

5. Enjoy the freedom of choosing the features you wish to participate in (or not)! 😌✨

For more information on Quote Posts, you can read Mastodon's announcement blog about it here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

#TinyMastodonTip#Mastodon#Fediverse#QuotePosts

Tiny Mastodon Tip to Hide Topics 🫣

If you get tired of seeing some
topics in your Mastodon feeds,

Know that you can use "Filters"
to help you save your spoons.

HOW TO ❓

From the desktop web interface:

1. Go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu.

2. Click on "Filters" on the left-side menu.

3. At the top-right, click on the "Add new filter" button.

4. Give a name to your filter in the "Title" field at the top, for example "US Politics". This Title will be displayed instead of the post and you will have the option to click on the Title to reveal a filtered post in your feeds 👀

5. Select the options you prefer. I recommend selecting "Hide with a warning" at first. That way, you will see if your Filter works and get the option described above to see it ⚠️

6. In "KEYWORDS", add the hashtags, words, names, or expressions you wish to hide for this topic. Select "Whole word" on the right.

7. Click on "Add keyword" at the bottom to add as many hashtags, names, or words that you wish for a same topic

8. Click on "Save new filter".

9. Magic! 🥄✨

Bonus Tip! To help everyone's filters work, on Mastodon it's good to use uncensored names and hashtags in your posts. That way, people will be able to filter it out if they wish 💚

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Filters

If you just came back to Mastodon,

WELCOME BACK!

We are very happy to see you again and hope you enjoy this wonderful corporate-free and ad-free community!💚✨

If you feel lost a bit or need a refresher, I wrote that thing for you: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109323504324459171

And also that thing 👇
#TinyMastodonTip

And you should really follow this wonderful account 👉 @FediTips

#Mastodon#Fediverse