Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?

[darthastrius@mastodon.social]

@FediTips Mastodon bots here aren’t even bad, and most of them claim to even be environmentally sustainable.

[triplingual@code4lib.social]

@FediTips Search on Mastodon doesn't really work for me, by which I mean that when I search for hot news terms or hashtags that are clearly not one-offs I often get no results or very few. How can I tell if this is an issue with fediverse, Mastodon, my instance, my client, or some interaction among some number of those?

[coloco@mastodon.social]

@FediTips Doy fe!

Y ademas haces un gran trabajo.

Gracias mil!

)>_<(

[Gæst]

@FediTips

Where can I look to see a list of hashtags I have followed? (On Mastodon)

Is there a hashtag other than #feditips to post or to help answer mastodon or fediverse questions? I could swear there used to be one

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@Metaph

If you're using the official Mastodon app, go to your profile page and click on the # icon at the top of the page to see your followed hashtags.

If you're using the Mastodon web interface, click on ☰ in the bottom right corner and then "# Followed Hashtags".

Third party apps have various interfaces.

There are many hashtags people can use, #FediTips and #MastoTips are probably the most common? (BTW if you want me to answer a question you need to mention me. I don't see hashtags.)

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@coloco

Aww, thank you very much! It's very kind!

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@triplingual

It's not your client, it's the structure of a federated network where each instance is properly independent: https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server/

There are things you can do about it, and things your admin can do about it, I've tried to list them at https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

If you just want to do one thing, follow as many relevant accounts as possible, you can discover them with many methods: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

If your timeline is overwhelmed, use Lists: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@DarthAstrius

Yeah, bots by themselves can be very useful. They usually don't use AI/LLMs but instead use human-written software to fetch particular info (for example a weather forecast bot) or interact in a particular way (for example a chess game bot).

I've listed good bots on here at https://fedi.directory/tag/bots

[dj3ei@mastodon.radio]

You may be a human being, but by this time, you've also become an institution!

Thanks for doing what you do!

@FediTips

[iamdannyboling@mstdn.social]

@dj3ei @FediTips

Right? #FediTips was a lifesaver when I first signed up. I ended up just reading every page of their entire website (it's not very large) and it's saved me a ton of frustration in the long run. One of the most friendly and helpful accounts anywhere on Fedi. ️

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@IAmDannyBoling @dj3ei

Thank you so much both of you, it's really kind of you, I'm flattered. I'm really happy if the site and account are useful!