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Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Front Page
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About This Site
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watch this very short video ⧉
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Sign up for an account ⧉
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the sign-up guide
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Choose an app
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your server’s website
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the web app
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Fill in your profile
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Discover people to follow
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Follow some hashtags
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follow some groups
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tips to get your account and posts discovered more easily
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Share your account address
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to verify your account
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transfer your account to another server
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there are really good reasons for it
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What is Mastodon? What is the Fediverse?
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Who owns the Fediverse? Is it owned by a corporation or venture capital firm? Can it be bought out by Google/Facebook/Elon Musk?
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Who sets the rules on the Fediverse? How do I find out what the rules are on my server?
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Who gets to start their own server?
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What if a server misbehaves? What if it allows its members to do something really bad?
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Does Mastodon or the Fediverse use ads or trackers or algorithms or blockchain/cryptocurrency or anything annoying like that?
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What other kinds of servers are on the Fediverse?
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What are toots? What are boosts? What are CWs? What are instances? Who is John Mastodon?
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What’s that rainbow pentagon thing that everyone seems to use on the Fediverse?
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Are there any other guides to Mastodon and the Fediverse?
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How do I join?
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Do I need multiple accounts? Do I need to join lots of servers?
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Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to another Mastodon server.
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How do I choose a good username? Can I change my username later?
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Tips for organisations joining Mastodon and the Fediverse
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How do I check which version of Mastodon a server is running? What are Mastodon forks?
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How do I stop receiving email notifications from Mastodon?
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What if a server closes down? What happens to my account?
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Can I use my account to log in on other servers?
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My website verification doesn’t work! The address won’t turn green!
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How to make your Mastodon account address appear when people link to your website or articles you’ve written
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Inviting people onto the Fediverse
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Using multiple accounts
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Downloading your Mastodon account’s post archive
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Logging out of your account
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How to delete your account
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Who can see my posts? What are post visibility settings? How do I send DMs?
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You don’t need link shorteners on Mastodon, all links count as 23 characters
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How do I post images, videos or audio? What can I attach to a post? How do I post GIFs?
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How do I use emojis in Mastodon?
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How do I post polls? How do I allow multiple responses in a poll?
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How do I edit my posts?
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How do I quote posts in Mastodon?
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Making your posts easier to find in searches
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What are hashtags? Should I add them to my posts?
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I can see a reply in my timeline, how do I see the full discussion it comes from?
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What are mentions? What does @-ing mean? How do I mention accounts when posting?
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How do I post a thread on Mastodon?
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How do I use rich text such as bold, italics or underlining on Mastodon?
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How do I get a link preview image to appear in my post?
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What about Likes and Re-Tweets? How do I do those in Mastodon?
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What are custom emoji? How do I access them? Can I add new ones?
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How do I share posts?
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How do I stop seeing the same post boosted again and again?
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Embedding posts on your website or blog
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How do I delete my posts?
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What does the eye icon 👁️ mean above Mastodon post threads?
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Scheduling posts to be automatically posted at a specific time
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Deleting old posts automatically after a certain time period
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How to use the reminder bot
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How do I pin my posts to my profile?
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Some accounts seem to have posts longer than 500 characters? How is this possible?
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Favourites and Bookmarks in Mastodon
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Customising Mastodon polls to allow multiple selections
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Adjusting photo previews on Mastodon so they look nice
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I’ve written a link but it isn’t clickable. How do I make it clickable?
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It’s a good idea to have at least some followers before posting your best content
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Why are some accounts marked as “Automated”? What is a bot account, and how do I mark my account as one?
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Crossposting between Mastodon and other social networks
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How do I search for stuff on Mastodon?
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Where are the trending posts and hashtags?
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How do I follow someone on Mastodon? How do I unfollow them?
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Which hashtags should I follow?
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Does Mastodon use algorithms? Is it going to start pushing content at me, or hiding stuff I want to see?
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What does the padlock 🔒 mean next to people’s names on Mastodon?
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What are notes? What does “Click to add note” mean on a profile?
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Why does it say “Pending” or “Cancel Follow” when I try to follow an account?
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What kind of accounts can I follow from Mastodon?
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How to be notified when your favourite accounts post something
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How to avoid accidentally boosting or deleting in Mastodon
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What are the Home, Local and Federated timelines? How do I stop them scrolling so quickly?
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How do I browse the Local timelines of other servers? Can I follow other servers’ Local timelines on my account?
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Using the Lists feature on Mastodon
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Browsing the Media tab on Mastodon profiles
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Browsing a Mastodon account’s posts that use a particular hashtag
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Following accounts through RSS
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Using Mastodon in light mode, dark mode and other themes
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Customising your notifications
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Filtering your timeline
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How to activate the Mastodon Advanced Web Interface
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Desktop apps for Mastodon
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Using Mastodon through a keyboard
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Typing emoji through the keyboard on Mastodon
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Using Mastodon through a CLI or TUI
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Using Mastodon on retro computers from the 1980s and 1990s
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Setting your language preferences, filtering out posts in other languages
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How to use the built-in language translation system on Mastodon
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Language codes used by Mastodon
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What are “original pages”? Why are they so useful? How do I see a post on its own server?
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Remote following and remote interactions on Mastodon and the Fediverse: Why does it keep asking me to give the name of my server or log in again?
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When I visited an account the profile was blank with no posts. Is it really blank? I’m sure there are posts there but I can’t see them.
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Which posts and accounts can I see from my server? How do I make my server notice posts and accounts that it can’t currently see?
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Why doesn’t every Fediverse server show all posts ever made by all users from all other servers?
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Do I need to use my real name or real photo?
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How do I report a post? How do I report a person?
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Beware of scammers and scams
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How do I contact the person who runs my server? How do I find out what the rules are on my server?
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Blocking and muting people on Mastodon
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Blocking and muting servers on Mastodon
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Help! I’ve accidentally blocked a server, how do I restore my follows and followers from that server?
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How to remove followers on Mastodon without blocking them
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How do I mute notifications from a thread that I don’t want to take part in?
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Hiding someone’s boosts without blocking or muting them
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Blocking DMs from people you don’t follow
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If you @ someone in a Mastodon DM, they will be able to see it
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How to hide your follows and followers
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How to hide your profile and posts from search engines like Google, Bing etc
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Using Content Warnings (CWs)
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How do I add a CW to a post I want to share?
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How to prevent your account being suggested to others
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Using Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on Mastodon
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Is Mastodon end-to-end encrypted?
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Adding extra safety by activating Authorized Fetch
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Adding extra safety by using allowlists instead of blocklists
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Do not use flashing images or emoji on posts or profiles!
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How do I make my posts more accessible to blind, deaf and deafblind people?
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How do I use Mastodon through a screen reader?
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How do I remember to add text descriptions?
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How can Mastodon server administrators automatically remind their users to add text descriptions?
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Mastodon API: Using Mastodon apps with non-Mastodon accounts
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BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading
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Importing your data into BookWyrm from GoodReads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre
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How to manually add a book to BookWyrm
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Friendica: A flexible Fediverse server type with long posts
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Ghost: Blogs and newsletters on the Fediverse
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How to activate and use Fediverse features in Ghost
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GoToSocial: Safe and lightweight
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Manyfold: Organise and share 3D printing files on the Fediverse
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Mobilizon: Event organisation and discovery
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OwnCast: Live streaming and chat on the Fediverse
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PeerTube: Video on the Fediverse
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How use PeerTube, how to follow PeerTube accounts from Mastodon
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Uploading video (or audio) to PeerTube, also how to start your own PeerTube server if you want to
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Getting your PeerTube videos, accounts and channels noticed by more people
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Subscribing to PeerTube channels through podcast apps
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Searching PeerTube, how to discover videos to watch, how to discover accounts to follow
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Giving people early access or exclusive access to your PeerTube videos
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How PeerTube admins can federate videos from other servers and accounts onto their server
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PixelFed: Photo sharing on the Fediverse
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Finding people to follow on PixelFed
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How to import your data from Instagram into Pixelfed
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DMs aren’t arriving on Pixelfed, what do I do?
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I’m trying to send a DM on Pixelfed but it tells me I need to wait a bit?
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Wanderer: Recording your trails and journeys on the Fediverse
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WordPress: Turning your blog into a Fediverse server
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Write Freely: Long-form writing platform for the Fediverse
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⚠️ Mastodon admins: Leave the “remote content retention period” setting blank!
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How do I create my own server?
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What do I call my server? What kind of domain name or subdomain should I use?
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Can I re-use a subdomain or domain from a defunct server on a new server?
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How to greatly increase your server’s view of the Fediverse using updates, relays, groups, directories and scripts
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How admins can communicate with their server’s members
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How to moderate your Mastodon server’s trends
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Managing how your members invite people to join your server
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How to add custom emoji to your Mastodon server
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Customising your server’s artwork, giving a server its own visual identity
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Customising your Mastodon server’s appearance with CSS
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Recommending accounts to new users on your server
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How to block (defederate) another server
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Importing ready-made server blocklists on your own Mastodon server
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Setting your Mastodon server’s website to display in a particular language for people who haven’t logged in
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How organisations and groups can run a Mastodon server collectively, how to assign roles to admins and moderators, how to create custom roles
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How to close your Mastodon server gracefully and responsibly
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Should I publish some server rules if I’m running a single-user server?
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Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) ⧉
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Mastodon
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Privacy Policy
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