Guys when you set your social graph (who you follow and who follows you) as public (the default) people can download it easily with tools like this https://followgraph.vercel.app/ and spam ALL of your followers.

In a network not based on influencing, or commercial means, nobody needs to know who YOU follow or follows you.

Do your people a favour and set that list to private.

> Show follows and followers on profile

Set it to off.

It's on https://vmst.io/settings/privacy at the bottom

Change vmst.io on that link for the domain name of your intsance. Or just go to

Settings > Profile > Privacy

Da ich immer wieder mal über Posts stolpere, die Linkverkürzerdienste nutzen: URLs in #Mastodon-Posts sind grundsätzlich 23 Zeichen lang, unabhängig von ihrer tatsächlichen Länge. Es gibt daher keinen Grund, Linkverkürzer zu verwenden.

Hello everyone! Is there a fishing community on the fediverse?
I’m searching for cool profiles to follow that practice fishing as a sport in a sustainable and ethical way. Thank you so much!

Boosts welcome

Oh, my goodness. I boosted @Em0nM4stodon’s post about this earlier. But I need to share it with some intention.

This piece she wrote on Mastodon privacy/security is intense. It’s long. SO much information. Read it anyway. Seriously.

And if y’all don’t follow Em, do yourself a solid and get on that. She’s smart af about InfoSec/privacy/security. And super friendly.

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

Para quienes, como yo, sufrimos de mal de archivo, encontré una función en mastodon para buscar entre los toots en favoritos o puestos en marcador.
Tienen que poner "in:library" en la búsqueda.
De igual forma sepan que los toots pueden ser destruidos o autodestruidos, si se quieren asegurar su archivo es mejor guardarlos de alguna otra forma.

This is my best tip:

If you have not yet done so, add a location field to your profile. It only takes a few seconds to do, but it makes it way easier for others to understand your context.

Quite often when I write something about Denmark, people will reply, "Yeah, we have that too!" — with no information about WHERE they are.

Mastodon is international, so if you want people to understand your context, use the web browser interface and go to

Profile page > Edit > Extra fields

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#question #mastotips je vous partage ce que me demande la grandette. Vos tuyaux seront bienvenus.
Le repouet exauce vos désirs les plus ardents.

Coucou papa je suis actuellement en train de peter un câble, je voudrais transférer des fichier sur mon disque dur mais il refuse de copier les fichiers qui ont un "?" Dans le nom, or j'ai pas envie de devoir renommer tout ça et en plus j'ai besoin de cette mention, est-ce que les geeks de masto ont une explication et une solution ?

#question #mastotips #histoire La grandette me demande s'il y a sur masto des profs d'histoire qui pourraient lui recommander "un site bien pour faire des frises chronologiques".

Le repouet rétablit la vérité historique.