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You probably should not use link shorteners, here's why:

- All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters no matter how long they really are. There is no need to shorten links on Mastodon, it won't save you any space.

- Link shorteners endanger privacy by allowing click tracking, and by hiding what is actually being clicked.

- Shortener providers will shut down, breaking all their links. e.g. Google's shortened links will all show 404 errors from September: chaos.social/@root42/114929876

chaos.socialroot42 (@root42@chaos.social)Another reminder that you should never ever use link shorteners: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-s-URL-shortener-goo-gl-will-only-show-404-errors-from-the-end-of-August-10501127.html

No one owns Mastodon or the wider Fediverse that it is part of.

The Fediverse is thousands of totally independent servers, each with their own owners. Each server only has a fraction of the total network on it. It would be very difficult or impossible for anyone to buy the whole network.

This helps keep the Fediverse safe from corporations and billionaires, because there is no one thing they can buy that would give them control.

More about this:

➡️ fedi.tips/who-owns-the-fediver

fedi.tipsWho owns the Fediverse? Is the Fediverse owned by a corporation or venture capital firm? Can it be bought out by Google/Facebook/Elon Musk? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Do you publish videos on PeerTube? You can optionally give people early/exclusive access to videos by publishing them as "unlisted" or "password protected". You can do this on the video upload screen in the "Privacy" dropdown menu.

You can then share the unlisted link or password with whoever you want to give access to.

This is particularly useful for rewarding patrons with early access, or for asking for feedback before full publication.

Your posts on Mastodon do not disappear unless you have switched on auto-delete. Mastodon's auto-delete option is switched off by default. It does not do anything unless you switch it on. More info about this at fedi.tips/deleting-posts-autom

If you've noticed posts by other people or bookmarks disappearing, this may be because your server admin's settings are incorrect. You may want to ask your admin about this, there is more info about these admin settings at fedi.tips/mastodon-admins-leav

fedi.tipsDeleting posts automatically in Mastodon after a certain time period | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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"I'm sick of Web3. I'm sick of corpo shit. And I'm sick of the impression that Web3 Corpo Shit is the only way to be online," @albinanigans writes in a really excellent guide to Mastodon for BIPOC folks, "So Your Black Ass Still Wants to Get on Mastodon":

qcb.neocities.org/mastodon

The guide pulls no punches about the Whiteness of Mastodon while arguing that federated social media is indeed the non-corporate alternative.

qcb.neocities.orgQCB: About Mastodon

Many people don't know it yet: You don't need #link shorteners on Mastodon: fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-s And they hide what you are sharing! People can't see what is behind the link. Would they trust you enough and click?

Ah, you do it for tracking?
Well, a lot of people are tired of being tracked.

fedi.tipsYou don’t need link shorteners on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Lists are a really useful feature on Mastodon, especially if your Home timeline is way too busy for you to keep up with. Lists are also useful for following accounts that may post too often, such as news services or sports results.

Here's a complete guide to Mastodon Lists:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists

I've updated the guide to take account of Mastodon's new Lists interface, which makes it a bit easier to create and edit Lists.

Hopefully the guide is also a bit clearer.

fedi.tipsHow to use the Lists feature on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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If you see an account that looks interesting, follow it!

Don't worry if it seems inactive or blank, it probably just looks that way because you're the first person to follow it from your server. (More info about why this happens and how to see the actual complete version of a "blank" profile at fedi.tips/why-does-someones-ac)

Once you follow an account, its posts will start showing up on your server too. Following accounts is a key part of building connections between servers.

fedi.tipsWhy does someone’s account page look completely blank? Is it really blank? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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I don't understand why the originating server doesn't report the number of boosts and favorites to my little, tiny server so I can tell what's happening. I usually see about 5-15% of the actual number, but that varies wildly.

It's kinda isolating to be so out of the loop. I'm excited for my server to be able to fetch all of the replies, though.

#^DU bist der Moderator!

Viele heiße Diskussionen bezüglich des Fediverse drehen sich rund ums Thema Moderation. Es geht darum, unangemessene Beiträge zu entfernen, Verfasser ggf. zu sanktionieren, Themen auszublenden, Nutzer ggf. zu sperren oder zu blockieren... es geht um die Kontrolle, ob Gesetze eingehalten werden oder ob die Community- (Server-) Regeln beachtet werden...


#FediTips #FediverseTips #Hubzilla
info.hubzilla.huDu bist der Moderator! - Hubzilla KnowledgeDB

#feditips #fedihelp

Solution found! Thanks @Kitty

(But if you've got any other suggestions - keep them coming!)

I saw a toot recently suggesting it was possible to blur selected images - I think the example was pictures containing spiders.
Is this a thing, and how is it achieved?
Is it app specific?

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@FediTips Vous postez dans plus d'une langue ?

L'interface web de Mastodon détecte désormais automatiquement la langue dans laquelle vous écrivez et vous propose de passer à cette langue dans l'indicateur de langue d'écriture.

Par exemple, si votre langue de rédaction est l'anglais mais que vous commencez à écrire en français, l'indicateur de langue s'en aperçoit et commence à s'illuminer en jaune. De plus, le français apparaît en haut de la liste des langues.

Plus d'informations sur les paramètres linguistiques de Mastodon :

➡️ fedi.tips/setting-your-languag

fedi.tipsSetting your language preferences on Mastodon, filtering out posts in other languages, filtering search results by language | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Do you post in more than one language?

Mastodon's web interface now automatically detects which language you are posting in and suggests switching to it in the posting language indicator.

For example, if you have your posting language set to English but you start writing in French, the language indicator notices this and starts glowing yellow. Also, French appears at the top of its language list.

More info about Mastodon's language settings:

➡️ fedi.tips/setting-your-languag

fedi.tipsSetting your language preferences on Mastodon, filtering out posts in other languages, filtering search results by language | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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