Feeling anxiety trying to keep up or stay connected to the latest atrocities? Use the #Max100 methodology:

• Create a small list of accounts you want to read •every• toot from, and filter those accounts from your home timeline. I call mine “Start Here” and I read it all a few times a day.

• On a much less frequent basis, open your Home timeline, then furiously scroll up so there are less than 100 toots. Just read those.

Your happiness awaits! #FediTips

If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:

https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.

Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.

Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.

1. Is anyone else getting routed to chinese language when they visit this URL? because i am: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/ (i end up at the URL https://docs.joinmastodon.org/zh-cn/methods/apps/ - note the "zh-cn" in the path.
i doublechecked my browser locale, VPN, etc. etc. and there's nothing configured for mainland chinese locale, but this happened even after clearing cache data for joinmastodon.org

2. who maintains the #JoinMastodon site?

cc: @mastodonmigration @FediTips @fediversereport @LaurensHof

Have you ever seen a post or thread that you want to look at again after a certain amount of time?

There is a Fediverse reminder bot which you can use to remind you about a particular thread after a specified time period (it can be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years later).

To use the bot, reply to the post or thread you want reminding about, mentioning the bot's account with the amount of time you want. More info and instructions in the guide:

https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm

This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.

If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:

https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

I was just asked by some one... what is boost bombing?

Well, it's when a person quite literally spams the stream with boosts.

Some people barely skim the stream and just boost stuff the glanced at... we're talking 10-20 in a row. Whilst it can get annoying, these are individual posts being over enthusiastically shared.

Others for some unknown and inane reason... boost every single comment on their own posts... Have they confused fave and boost buttons perhaps... is it really necessary to boost a post that effectively says 'LOL' or 'I agree'.... Does that also fall under 'tooting your own horn' (boosting yourself over and over again, even unboosting and reboosting the same post at different times or days).

One I can understand... the other is inane and insane to me.

I guess that's why there's an option to mute the boosts of people... it does come in handy.

If you're looking for interesting accounts to follow on here, there are lots of ways you can discover them:

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

(I've tried to list every method, let me know in the replies if I've missed something!)

Kilka dni temu wyczaiłem, że istnieje takie narzędzie jak @birb, które przenosi („papuguje”) kanały RSS do Fediversum. Natworzyłem tym sposobem trochę „papug” i co ciekawsze podrzucam, może skorzystacie. Zachęcam również do tworzenia własnych.

@tygodnik.neuropa.pl
@frontstory.pl
@klubjagiellonski.pl
@krytykapolityczna.pl
@religionnews.com
@filozofuj.eu
@machinamysli.org
@episkopat.pl
@www.ekai.pl
@churchlifejournal.nd.edu
@44.waw.pl
@magazynkontakt.pl
@archeowiesci.pl

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new release of #Fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, counts the number of times each hashtag appears in your timeline even if people don't use a "#" character to give you a better sense of what people are talking about in the Fediverse.

there's a little bit of art vs. science here because some strings are disqualified from this kind of counting (e.g. a word like "the" should not be counted even if some maniac decided to make it a hashtag) so let me know if you see any weirdly high counts.

* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

Ihr könnt Benachrichtigungen aktivieren um keine #CMHB Ankündigung zu verpassen:

1. Über die eigene Instanz-Website, oder eine App zum Profil @CriticalMassBremen navigieren
2. Dem Account folgen
3. Auf das Glockensymbol neben der Schaltfläche "Entfolgen" klicken/tippen (evtl. nicht in allen Apps verfügbar, dann über die Webseite einrichten)

https://fedi.tips/how-to-be-notified-when-someone-posts-on-mastodon/

If you're looking for a nice well-run Fediverse server to move to, you might want to check out my other website:

https://fedi.garden

I also run an account that features good individual servers every day:

@FediGarden

All of the servers listed comply with specific standards of responsible moderation and technical reliability (more info at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site).

Hey friends, a reminder that you can put this into your RSS feed app (replace it with correct values, obv) and it will grab the public feed of any account on Mastodon:

https://INSTANCE.com/@USER.rss

Niftykeen, jellybean

If you're only using Mastodon through the official mobile apps, you're missing out on many of its features such as pinned posts, temporary mutes, scheduled posts, different poll types, account redirects and more.

If you want the complete Mastodon experience, you might want to try using your server's website, third party apps, web apps, desktop apps etc.

More info on all the different ways of accessing Mastodon in the guide here:

https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app

Nobody can resist a girl with a hackintosh

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Just pushed a new release of #FediAlgo to production. Now sprinkles the latest posts from your homeserver into your feed, caches more stuff for performance reasons, fully supports blocked domains, and some other stuff.

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114518687892123058

Hey Fedi!
We ARE the algorithm. But that also means it can take a little extra work to get the feed that works for you.

How do YOU curate your feed? How do you use lists?

Here's my algorithm:
Someone posts something cool? Follow 'em.
Someone posts something EXTREMELY COOL (or I've seen their cool content before)?
They get added to my ️ Faves list.

Then, in the Advanced Web Interface (Ala Tweetdeck, see 2nd link below), I've got:

1. ️ Faves. Hide these posts from Home. Also, show me replies IF someone it's a reply to someone else also in my Faves list.

2. Home: folk I follow who aren't in ️ Faves

3. # introduction (to welcome, follow, and boost interesting new folk!)

As always, don't sleep on @FediTips 's excellent guides; here's the one on using Lists:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/

And here's Advanced Web Interface:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface/

Feditits

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