Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
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Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
You can ask questions by replying or messaging, and I'll try to find you some answers
Don't worry if a question seems simple, there is no such thing as a stupid question.
If you prefer to look stuff up yourself, there is lots of help for using Mastodon and the Fediverse on the website at https://fedi.tips (new people might especially like the "Quick Start" section at the top).
@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?
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p.s. Just to make absolutely clear, I am a human being!
I do not use any AI/LLMs. -
Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
You can ask questions by replying or messaging, and I'll try to find you some answers
Don't worry if a question seems simple, there is no such thing as a stupid question.
If you prefer to look stuff up yourself, there is lots of help for using Mastodon and the Fediverse on the website at https://fedi.tips (new people might especially like the "Quick Start" section at the top).
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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.)
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Aww, thank you very much! It's very kind!
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@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?
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
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@FediTips Mastodon bots here aren’t even bad, and most of them claim to even be environmentally sustainable.
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
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p.s. Just to make absolutely clear, I am a human being!
I do not use any AI/LLMs.You may be a human being, but by this time, you've also become an institution!
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You may be a human being, but by this time, you've also become an institution!
Thanks for doing what you do! 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.
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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!
