Mastodon

Is the DM button called "Privately mention"? Or is that something else?

I see it everywhere, reddit comments, lemmy, news articles and mastodon itself. How did this misspelling become so common?

Hello. My instance is mindly.social. It used to work fine, but now, when I try to connect, I simply see a Mastodon logo. This is true on both Firefox and Chromium browsers. However, when I use Pachli on my phone, it does connect. I'm not sure what the issue is.

Come give me a follow. Also I never used twitter, anyone have pointer on how to use this style of message board?

On mastodon iOS app, i love it that I can see how many people are talking about specific news. But I don’t really know what people are tooting. Can I even do that?

X would be a good start

Running my own instance, where do you change the max_pinned_statuses? All I find is a variable called PIN_LIMIT, not a value. Is this something you can change?

Came across this article in the latest stuff magazine and in the past, a lot of writers were a little unsure, but seams more positive.

I've been playing around using masto.host to run my own instance. It's fully provisioned, and takes care of all the upgrades. The cheapest plan is 6 bucks a month, which isn't really that crazy. I was already pitching in a couple of bucks for the instance I was using, so it wasn't really a big difference in terms of cost.

I've run it for a week so far without any problems, and it seems to be working as well as the instance I was using before. Big advantage is that I have full control over which servers and accounts I federate with.

The one thing I didn't realize is how much data mastodon servers go through. My instance chewed through the 20 gig limit in just a couple of days initially. Then I set media retention policy to a day and now it peaks at around 15 gigs.

I'd be curious to hear if anybody else decided to run their own instance and their experience with that. Are there any downsides that are not obvious here?

They did create the account a few months ago but only learned about it somewhat recently

I'm looking into setting up Mastodon instance for myself on a very minimal cloud server. To save resources on that box, I'd like to run the web interface on my own server at home, and only have the Mastodon backend running on the VPS. Is it possible to completely get rid of the web interface and only access the instance through the API? What's the best way to achieve this? Does anyone have experience with this, or do you know any useful resources?

Reading this article, and especially the end ...

CEO Jay Graber told The Verge that the plan is to hand over control of the AT protocol to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force.

... it almost sounds as if Bluesky is (going to be) as community-run as Mastodon.

But I'm suspicious. What is the catch?

I've recently moved my mastodon instance off masto.host to a server I own. First thing I changed was the character limit and default UI (to Mastodon-Bird UI). But I was wondering about:

• How to increase the maximum image per post limit.
• How to change poll options, like maximum numer of answers.
• How to increase the alt text character limit.

Maybe there are other cool options I forgot about but you want to share 🙂

Does someone know which files to amend?

I have a mastodon.social account (if the instance I'm on matters). I use VPN and notice I'm getting these emails each time I sign in. My account is also just a post viewing account, so I have no account security concerns.

I checked the settings UI in mastodon and all email preferences are content/interaction-related versus security-related - I couldn't find any way of turning these emails off.

Setting up 2FA to extinguish this is out of the question. Is there a way to turn these emails off on the Mastodon side or are my only options to mark Mastodon emails as spam on the email side (or delete the Mastodon account and go back to viewing without an account)?

TIA! :)

@mastodon How to change icon of Mastodon list.

Just started using mastodon.
Followers, hashtags, bookmarks, list, etc, etc. Lots of backlog man.
Started using lists for organising things better.
Anybody know how to change there icon?
It is a group like icon by default.

I recently discovered that the "Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms" checkbox in the account settings is disabled by default. I didn't even know this option existed.

I'm curious why it's disabled by default. I think most users would want to be featured.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/14785810

It looks like it will require a manual review process for now but it could be automated down the line.

I am looking for an alternative to bird.makeup (Because it doesn't work anymore) that allows me to follow Twitter accounts on Mastodon. I saw on GitHub there was a tool called Touitomamout (https://github.com/louisgrasset/touitomamout) which is up to date and apparently does the job well but I don't know much about Docker. Is there an instant solution for me to follow Elon Musk on Mastodon 😆.