Can I ask a favour?
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
@FediTips Hope you eventually integrate more languages, I'd like to help with Spanish translation.
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@FediTips Hope you eventually integrate more languages, I'd like to help with Spanish translation.
It's difficult for me to maintain several language versions myself, but the text on my site is available for anyone to use under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike.
Some people have set up their own tips sites in their own languages based on my text:
FRENCH
https://enthalpiste.fr/fr/fedi/fedi
https://www.didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guide-mastodonINDONESIAN
https://panduanfediverse.wordpress.comUKRAINIAN
https://blog.noleron.com/posts/tipsHappy to do shoutouts if people want to do more tips sites in other languages
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
@FediTips ai need some help! I want to post some code, but if I use the ``` code here ``` method nothing seems to happen to me.
But I've seen someone post code in detailed format. So, how is it possible? -
It's difficult for me to maintain several language versions myself, but the text on my site is available for anyone to use under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike.
Some people have set up their own tips sites in their own languages based on my text:
FRENCH
https://enthalpiste.fr/fr/fedi/fedi
https://www.didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guide-mastodonINDONESIAN
https://panduanfediverse.wordpress.comUKRAINIAN
https://blog.noleron.com/posts/tipsHappy to do shoutouts if people want to do more tips sites in other languages
@FediTips Hmm gotcha, I don't have experience creating websites so that creates a barrier for me, specially because I wouldn't be able to afford my own hosting ant that stuff. Well, I might get to that process eventually, thanks!
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
@FediTips couleur we consider launching a translation ?
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@FediTips ai need some help! I want to post some code, but if I use the ``` code here ``` method nothing seems to happen to me.
But I've seen someone post code in detailed format. So, how is it possible?Ordinary Mastodon, which your server mastodon.uno is using, does not let people add text formatting.
However, some servers are running altered versions of Mastodon which do allow people to format text.
Ordinary Mastodon can display formatted text, even though it cannot write it.
There is lots more information about this topic in this guide: https://fedi.tips/is-mastodon-compatible-with-rich-text-formatting-such-as-markdown/
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@FediTips Hmm gotcha, I don't have experience creating websites so that creates a barrier for me, specially because I wouldn't be able to afford my own hosting ant that stuff. Well, I might get to that process eventually, thanks!
Sorry I can't host it myself, but it gets really complicated hosting other languages because I update the guides quite often and the other versions would need to be updated at the same time
It's much easier to help people set up their own independent guides in their language. It also means they can alter stuff if they want to take it in another direction.
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Sorry I can't host it myself, but it gets really complicated hosting other languages because I update the guides quite often and the other versions would need to be updated at the same time
It's much easier to help people set up their own independent guides in their language. It also means they can alter stuff if they want to take it in another direction.
@FediTips No worries, I guess you pay for your website? if there's a free and beginner friendly way to copy the skeleton of your website and then just add the articles in Spanish, that would be super awesome. If not I'll have to set time some day to learn to do these things.
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@FediTips couleur we consider launching a translation ?
I can't host any translations because it would get very complicated to keep them up to date.
However, the text on my site is available to anyone under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike, so there are people who have made their own translated tips sites using my text.
There are a couple in French:
https://enthalpiste.fr/fr/fedi/fedi
https://www.didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guide-mastodon -
@FediTips No worries, I guess you pay for your website? if there's a free and beginner friendly way to copy the skeleton of your website and then just add the articles in Spanish, that would be super awesome. If not I'll have to set time some day to learn to do these things.
Yeah, I use a paid hosting company for my sites.
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Sorry I can't host it myself, but it gets really complicated hosting other languages because I update the guides quite often and the other versions would need to be updated at the same time
It's much easier to help people set up their own independent guides in their language. It also means they can alter stuff if they want to take it in another direction.
Do you have a recommended platform system for tips?
Wiki?
WordPress?
Joomla?
BB board?I *might* be able to host a translation mirror as a sub-domain of an existing site. Although, if you have the option, you might have sub-domains for the languages as sub-domains of your site.
They could be managed independently.francais.fedi.tips
espanol.fedi.tipsEdit.
I've just probed your site and can see that you are using Wordpress. Only issue might be that you will need an MySQL database per subdomain site.
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
@FediTips thank you. I’ve been trying to figure out how to build lists like I can in bluesky
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
@FediTips Oh, there we go, relevant to one of my recent posts, why do I see posts as barely having any Favourites and even the ones that do have them, when I go to see who Favourited it, it shows no one?
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@FediTips Oh, there we go, relevant to one of my recent posts, why do I see posts as barely having any Favourites and even the ones that do have them, when I go to see who Favourited it, it shows no one?
The numbers and favourites below a post are lower priority on here, and they don't necessarily get updated as often or as widely as the numbers on the original version of a post. You can check what the most accurate numbers and favourites are on a post by going to its "original page", more info at https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon
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@FediTips thank you. I’ve been trying to figure out how to build lists like I can in bluesky
There are Lists on Mastodon, but they are meant as personal "mini timelines". You add accounts you're already following and those accounts' posts and boosts appear on the List. You can then optionally hide them from your main timeline, which is a good way of reducing how busy your main timeline is.
More info at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/
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Do you have a recommended platform system for tips?
Wiki?
WordPress?
Joomla?
BB board?I *might* be able to host a translation mirror as a sub-domain of an existing site. Although, if you have the option, you might have sub-domains for the languages as sub-domains of your site.
They could be managed independently.francais.fedi.tips
espanol.fedi.tipsEdit.
I've just probed your site and can see that you are using Wordpress. Only issue might be that you will need an MySQL database per subdomain site.
If you are creating a site, it's up to you how you do it!
The database is only there because I have a search option on the fedi.tips website. If you don't want search, it can be a static site as the contents is almost all text with a few still images.
Thanks for the offer of hosting a subdomain but I'd rather not have a translation on my site, due to the problems of coordinating frequent updates. I'd prefer to help people create their own independent sites based on the text.
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The numbers and favourites below a post are lower priority on here, and they don't necessarily get updated as often or as widely as the numbers on the original version of a post. You can check what the most accurate numbers and favourites are on a post by going to its "original page", more info at https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon
@FediTips I see it now, went to this: https://wetdry.world/@micr0/115375745664561354 post and although it shows 1 Favourite for me, I went to the server it's hosted on and suddenly…1.500 Favourites…Now the Fediverse seems way bigger than it did to me.
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@FediTips I see it now, went to this: https://wetdry.world/@micr0/115375745664561354 post and although it shows 1 Favourite for me, I went to the server it's hosted on and suddenly…1.500 Favourites…Now the Fediverse seems way bigger than it did to me.
Yup! Basically, it's easier not to pay attention to numbers on here, they aren't considered important
There was concern from the developers and early users on here about how people were trying to "farm" numbers on Twitter, Instagram etc. By downplaying the numbers, it avoids encouraging lots of fake engagement. That's why you can't even see the numbers if you're just browsing your main timeline, to prevent them mattering so much.
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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks
@FediTips
Thanks for that! I gave up on Facebook & pretty much all social media years ago, then heard about Mastodon. So far, so good!
