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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 12:05

If you know someone who wants help using this place, feel free to ask, I can answer their questions directly. This account aims to be an unofficial help desk, especially for new or non-technical people.

If they're having trouble signing up, they can email me at email@fedi.tips

Also, please tell new people about the website at https://fedi.tips (especially the Quick Start section at the top). This has lots of non-technical advice for beginners and will help them get started.

[#]FediTips

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Written by stovis on 2025-01-19 at 13:04

@FediTips Yesterday I discovered tons of new interesting accounts thanks to your site💯

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Written by Clément Latzarus on 2025-01-19 at 13:47

@FediTips Have you ever considered translating the site in other languages?

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 13:58

@clemlatz

The text on the site is available under Creative Commons By SA licence, and some people have made their own versions of the site in other languages.

These are linked at the bottom of this page:

https://fedi.tips/what-do-i-do-next-are-there-any-other-guides-to-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

If you want to do your own version of the site in other languages, feel free as long as you link back to the original 🙂

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Written by Clément Latzarus on 2025-01-19 at 14:05

@FediTips I see there already a French traduction here https://enthalpiste.fr/index.php/fedi-trucs/ so I’m good. Thanks for your hard work!

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Written by Sasi on 2025-01-19 at 15:17

@FediTips can I drop a Question here? How do I link to BlueSky. I know there’s a way but I can’t seem to figure it out. New to Fediverse. Thank you.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 15:22

@moonandbaboon

I'm sorry, I don't provide Bluesky support, the people who run it seem a bit dubious (https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/113364985280012085) 😦

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Written by Stein Arne Brekke on 2025-01-19 at 16:04

@moonandbaboon Just follow @bsky.brid.gy, and you'll be good to go! Easy as that. :)

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Written by Sasi on 2025-01-19 at 21:34

@brekke so…whatever I post here will show up on BlueSky? I’m not sure if that will merge with my existing account over there. Or will it go through a bot feed as Mastodon account lurking on BlueSky… I have an active account on there already. Someone posted a link. Maybe I need to read that. Thank you.

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Written by Stein Arne Brekke on 2025-01-19 at 21:47

@moonandbaboon Your account here is now also visible on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/moonandbaboon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

If you post something on Mastodon, it will also pop up there. If bridged users comment, it will show in both places. Unfortunately, if non-bridged bluesky users comment there, you will see nothing here.

If you already maintain a Bluesky account, you might see few benefits to this. You can block the Bridgy profile to deactivate the bridge. :)

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Written by Sasi on 2025-01-19 at 21:57

@brekke I think you are right. I’ve maintained a BlueSky account and now it looks like there is a fake me on there. 😂 they don’t merge. It would make sense to have done this at the very beginning. Like the ship has sailed and now it seems confusing to me and for people. That sounds about right. Right?

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Written by Stein Arne Brekke on 2025-01-19 at 22:17

@moonandbaboon I'm not sure how often people search for you specifically, but of course, there's a risk they'll follow the "wrong" profile. And if you post the same things both places, it's effectively pointless.

If you decide one day to abandon one site or the other, enabling the bridge is a nice service to whoever is left on the other site. But as long as you're using both, there's indeed no need. :)

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Written by Sasi on 2025-01-19 at 22:28

@brekke totally tracking. Thank you sooooooo much. People start to complain about bots. I don’t think anyone will bother to read. Oh. This is a bridged account. Many don’t know what it is. Myself included. Seeing the same profile photo twice is a red flag. I thought bridging will simplify things but for my case, it will complicate things. For now anyways. Thank you again.

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Written by Flavio Torba on 2025-01-19 at 16:08

@FediTips How can I follow accounts in other fediverse socials from my Mastodon account? Is it possible?

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 16:11

@flaviotorba

Yes!

You follow them exactly as you would follow any account: just click on the name and click "follow".

For example, this is a Pixelfed account:

:PixelFed: @Iancylkowski

If you click on it within Mastodon it will look like a Mastodon account, but it's actually a Pixelfed account.

Another example, this is a PeerTube account:

:PeerTube: @helenmclaughlin

You can follow it just like any other account. If you reply to a video in Mastodon, it appears a a comment in PeerTube.

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Written by Flavio Torba on 2025-01-19 at 18:09

@FediTips Great! Thank you

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Written by Flavio Torba on 2025-01-19 at 18:16

@FediTips another one: how can I browse accounts I may be interested in (for ex. on peertube), always from my Mastodon app?

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 18:25

@flaviotorba

There are lots of ways you can discover accounts, most of them work in a cross-platform way.

For example if you do a search in Mastodon, the search results will be from a variety of platforms, not just Mastodon.

Here's a guide for how to discover accounts to follow:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

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Written by Elischeva on 2025-01-19 at 16:42

@FediTips

How can I see all the accounts I already follow both on Mastodon and Pixelfed?

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 16:51

@Elischeva91

You can see the accounts you follow from your profile page. Click on your profile picture or username to go to your own profile.

Once you're on your profile, click on "Following" to see who you follow.

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Written by Em :official_verified: on 2025-01-19 at 21:10

@FediTips Thank you so much for all the awesome support you bring to newcomers joining us FediTips! You're the best! :dragon_heart:

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 21:29

@Em0nM4stodon

Aww... cheers! 😊 That's really kind of you!

Well done for the support you're providing too!

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Written by Alexandro Lacadena 📷 on 2025-01-19 at 21:21

@FediTips Do you know of any app/website that searches for people you follow on Twitter/X on Mastodon? There were a couple but none of them work.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 21:28

@petaqui

There used to be lots of them, but Musk shut them all down at his end when he took over Twitter 😞

There's nothing that can be done about this unfortunately.

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Written by Alexandro Lacadena 📷 on 2025-01-19 at 21:46

@FediTips Damm 😭 and what about an app to schedule toots? ☺️

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-19 at 22:15

@petaqui

Ah that's much easier! Mastodon has a built-in scheduling system supported by many third party apps and sites (though weirdly the official apps don't yet support it).

There's more info here: https://fedi.tips/scheduling-posts-on-mastodon/

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Written by Alexandro Lacadena 📷 on 2025-01-20 at 00:45

@FediTips thanks! I'll take a look

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Written by Claudine C :antifa: on 2025-01-19 at 21:54

@FediTips Thanks for all that you do! I just supported you on #Liberapay – I figure I recommend your accounts and site so often I should help with the running costs.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-20 at 01:42

@claudinec

Aww, thank you so much! 🙏 That is really generous and greatly appreciated, it makes a huge difference in keeping these all going! 👏 Thanks!

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Written by Grey Liliy on 2025-01-20 at 00:12

@FediTips Thank you so much for this resource! 💖 This site has been so helpful!

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 06:14

@FediTips

Is there an android client where you can reverse the scroll direction?

It doesn't make sense seeing the very end of long posts first. Quite peculiar.

Thanks for the really helpful work.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-20 at 11:00

@ianp5a

I'm not sure, I'm going to boost your question in case others can offer suggestions.

By the way, when you say "end of long posts first", do you mean the final posts of threads?

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 11:13

@FediTips On the timeline or home, posts appear bottom first. In a thread, it's OK

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-20 at 11:13

@ianp5a

You mean the newest posts appear at the top?

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 11:25

@FediTips Yes. You need to scroll them downwards to read them. It's the opposite to the thread direction.

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Written by rsp on 2025-01-20 at 12:54

@FediTips @ianp5a I think this is what they're asking for: chronological vs. Reverse chronological.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22667

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 13:21

@FediTips

No. If a post in the timeline is, say, 20 rows of text, the last line at bottom of the post appears first, at the top of the screen as you scroll it downwards.

You will read "... the butler murdered him. The End" first.

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Written by ChrisR on 2025-01-20 at 13:45

@ianp5a @FediTips I'm on the extended web interface (whatever it's properly called), and I don't think I see that! It's always the first lines of a post that appear at the bottom of the page as I scroll downwards from "just posted" towards "posted an hour or so ago".

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Written by ChrisR on 2025-01-20 at 13:49

@ianp5a @FediTips Aha, I think I see the difference. You're starting at past posts and working towards the present. I think I used to do that years ago, when there were fewer posts and I was more completist. But for some time, most social media seems to have defaulted the other way: the place you start is now, and you scroll back towards the past. It's weird when you think about it, but seems to be The Way Things Are!

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 14:00

@carusb @FediTips

Time to fix it then. Never follow the mob without a rational reason.

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 13:54

@carusb that sounds good.

I wonder if there is a setting on the mastodon web client?

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Written by not sam on 2025-01-20 at 11:16

@ianp5a @FediTips I don't understand the question. can you please rephrase?

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 11:19

@samiam @FediTips In the timeline/home, new posts arrive at the top and you scroll them downwards to see them. Older posts disappear off the bottom of the screen.

The requirement is an option to reverse this direction.

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Written by not sam on 2025-01-20 at 11:29

@ianp5a @FediTips you want new posts to appear at the bottom, and then to scroll up to read them?

note: I still don't think I understand, because this seems to contradict your first description, as far as I could understand it. I'm not trying to be difficult -- just trying to understand, and perhaps help others understand too. that said, if you find my questions annoying, feel free to tell me and/or stop trying to answer them. maybe someone else will respond in a more helpful way!

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Written by not sam on 2025-01-20 at 11:37

@ianp5a @FediTips I just read thru your exchange with feditips, which wasn't there yet when I started. I'm still confused 😅 but maybe getting closer!

so, you're scrolling along down, and at some point you see the last post in an extended thread, of which you haven't previously read the earlier posts? not ideal. you'd like the feed to handle extended threads differently so that you could more easily recognize them and start reading them from the beginning.

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 11:38

@samiam @FediTips No the threads are OK. It's the main timeline that has the problem.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-20 at 11:39

@ianp5a @samiam

Are you wanting the oldest posts to be at the top? With the newest posts at the bottom?

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 11:42

@FediTips @samiam

Yes. Newest posts at the bottom.

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Written by Xuan on 2025-01-25 at 17:17

@ianp5a @FediTips @samiam

[#]Pachli by @pachli implemented that feature!

Bear in mind that it remains an experimental feature, though you can give it a try and help improve it 🙂: https://pachli.app/pachli/2024/08/30/2.8.0-release.html#experimental-support-for-reversing-the-timeline

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-25 at 17:21

@xuan @FediTips @samiam @pachli

Thanks but i don't get the 'Lab Experiments' in 2.9.1

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Written by Xuan on 2025-01-25 at 17:32

@ianp5a

Preferences > Lab experiments (bottom) > Reverse timeline order

Isn't it there? I'm on 2.9.1 too.

@FediTips @samiam @pachli

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-25 at 17:38

@xuan @FediTips @samiam @pachli yes got it now and it works!

I'll have to see what happens when new posts come in now.

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-25 at 17:46

@xuan @FediTips @samiam @pachli hooray! finally solved one of mastodon's crazy deficits. The Pachli mobile client let's you set it to have new posts appear at the bottom of the timeline, where they scroll upwards. Just like a thread does. You read the top of a long post first. (I read top to bottom.)

Now all Mastodon needs is rich text, and groups, for it to start to have function over fashion.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-26 at 01:31

@ianp5a @xuan @samiam @pachli

You can create rich text if you join or move to a Glitch Mastodon server. This rich text will be displayed by ordinary Mastodon servers too: https://fedi.tips/is-mastodon-compatible-with-rich-text-formatting-such-as-markdown/

You can find some nice Glitch Mastodon servers listed at https://fedi.garden/tag/glitch-mastodon/

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Written by Rachael Ava 💁🏻‍♀️ on 2025-01-20 at 11:18

@ianp5a @FediTips On Tusky, newer replies are put at the bottom.

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Written by Iαη on 2025-01-20 at 11:23

@RachaelAva1024 @FediTips

Inside a thread the direction is OK. The main timeline has the problem. Even in Tusky

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Written by Rachael Ava 💁🏻‍♀️ on 2025-01-20 at 11:35

@ianp5a @FediTips I see. My bad.

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Written by Ducky Fella on 2025-01-20 at 11:34

@ianp5a @FediTips Would also like to know, feel like I’m forever scrolling up instead of down like most apps

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-20 at 11:35

@duckyfella @ianp5a

Most apps show the latest posts at the top like Mastodon does?

Is that not happening for you?

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Written by Ducky Fella on 2025-01-20 at 11:38

@FediTips @ianp5a I should’ve explained better. I have been conditioned by algorithmic apps that I should be scrolling down the page rather than up. I’m not used to this chronological thing. So it would be nice if the feed order could be toggled to reverse.

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-20 at 11:40

@duckyfella @ianp5a

But, you are scrolling down the page on Mastodon aren't you?

When you open most Mastodon apps it shows you the latest posts and then you scroll down from there to see older ones?

(By the way I'm not being snarky, just genuinely interested in different people's experiences! 🙂 )

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