Mastodon

I tried to migrate from mastodon.social to vivaldi for the 1000+ character limit. I found out that it doesn't display favorites from accounts that aren't on vivaldi. I made an account on toot.cat and the same thing happened. Also I can't see the trending section in my toot.cat account. Isn't mastodon supposed to show faves from all servers? Why is this happening?

It happens only when I open the "home" timeline. The trending, local, and federated timelines still load normally. Am I the only one getting this error? Can I fix it somehow?

Before you comment, please know that I'm not complaining. Someone asked this in Mastodon and it's a good question because if you don't block Threads dot net, then you can look people up and follow them and vice versa.

In my home feed I see posts from other Mastodon servers but not from Threads. Why is that? Thanks in advance

Edit There are no Threads dot net posts in my Global feed either. And I haven't blocked Threads either.

I setup my own self-hosted mastodon instance and Im curious if there is a way to setup scheduled posts with it? or if I need some other tool.
I know some mobile and desktop apps, along with some websites let you do that, but it would be much nicer if it was just built in so I could do it from the browser and not have to worry if my phone app or laptop is on during the scheduled time.
Does anyone have experience with schedules posts?

Some interesting new features incoming:

• “Featured” tab on profiles
• Browsing user's activity on hashtag
• Quote posts

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When searching for relevant accounts, I often come across users on Twitter/X with a birdsite mastodon bridge such as @firefox@birdsite.monster, which seems to be the most followed Firefox account on mastodon.

However, this account has no visible posts, and when I follow it I get a “Pending”.

How does this work? Thanks

I enjoy Mastodon, but there is only a thing bugging me. When I access my home feed, I see many posts from a specific user. Can I limit his posts on my side?

~~It works on Lemmy and Bluesky…~~

It works on Lemmy in the Arctic iOS app and on Bluesky… (edited after [@Ludrol@szmer.info] (https://szmer.info/u/Ludrol) corrected me).

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h9tkm

https://lemm.ee/comment/19452399

I've tried most of the well known apps but I have never been satisfied with the UI, I keep getting back to the website which doesn't live up to be a daily driver due to lack of performance. The closest one I have used is Subway Tooter, which also has some questionable UI choices. Where it tries to implement everything, but it ends up looking cluttered and clunky.

I use a variety of clients from the official website, to tusky to elk and i haven't found a way to show only the content of the accounts i follow. All "Home" feeds additionally contain information i haven't directly subscribed to.

How does this work?

I understand the need for content warnings on posts containing nsfw or nsfl materials, or anything that has a good chance of triggering a traumatic response, eg discussions related to self harm or abuse.

But I've run across people who expect others to put content warnings on selfies (especially if they contain eye contact), pictures of food (often specifically food with meat), and anything to do with politics. I don't want to invalidate their needs or preferences and say they shouldn't wish to see those things on their timeline; I'm just not sure content warnings is the appropriate tool in the cases.

Mastodon has very customizable controls for hashtag filtering now. You can set up filters to completely hide posts containing certain hashtags or you can have mastodon apply content warnings to them for you if you want to decide whether to see the affected posts case by case.

I think the people in the latter group should instead apply hashtag filtering as needed. If they see a post that gets around their filter, they should either adjust their filters or ask the poster to use the appropriate hashtags, eg to remember to use #politics when posting about politics.

Thoughts?

Hi, i'm curious if any of you have any experiences setting up and using a Mastodon instance for your family/social circle only?

I'm thinking it could provide an experience like the early Facebook, where you saw posts from people you actually cared about. And not just a bunch of ads disguised as content.

If you have experience with it, how did you convince your family to move over to the server? Does it get used and are there any unforeseen complications you hadn't expected?

title says it all. i can register lemmy and matrix account on certain instances without email address, but im yet to find one for mastodon.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/21846466

Just curious if there's bots on mastodon that you can attempt interact with. I might make a bot that pretends to be human using ollama just to see how it goes. Because that would be interesting

Hello,

I’m thinking about to migrate my instance Fulda.social to my Homeserver. This is an Ryzen 7 CPU with 64 GB RAM. Currently I sync the file /opt/mastodon/public/system to the s3 Storage.

My bandwidth has 250 Mbit/s download and 50 Mbit/s Upload.

My instance has currently 200 active users and 3k registered users.

Make it sense to do this step? What do you think?

Anyone running the instance on an Homeserver?

I want to avoid giving any arguments to either side of the debate because I don't want to Poison the well.

The question is should main instances of mastodon allow for bots that see when fediverse streamers go live.