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meta  Useful links for newcomers to Mastodon

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Posting this again for recent newcomers

An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips

How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpB Y

10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futu ristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021

An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide ToMastodon

You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.

#FediTip #help #tips #tricks #Mastodon

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Posting this again for recent newcomers

An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips

How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpB Y

10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futu ristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021

An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide ToMastodon

You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.

#FediTip #help #tips #tricks #Mastodon

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Does Mastodon have groups?

That depends on what you mean. If you mean like forums, then no. But if you mean like G+ Groups, i.e. lists of people you follow, then yes it does. They're called Lists, and you'll find them in the Getting Started tab at the far right of Mastodon's web interface. So, how do you use them? Well, here's the thing…

[A thread 1/]

#FediTip #help

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Does Mastodon have groups?

That depends on what you mean. If you mean like forums, then no. But if you mean like G+ Groups, i.e. lists of people you follow, then yes it does. They're called Lists, and you'll find them in the Getting Started tab at the far right of Mastodon's web interface. So, how do you use them? Well, here's the thing…

[A thread 1/]

#FediTip #help

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How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to it again, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

[A short thread]

#FediTip #help

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How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to it again, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

[A short thread]

#FediTip #help

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For everyone new here that thought that "Toot" is childish, remember when you first heard that on Twitter you "Tweet"?

You got over it, right?

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For everyone new here that thought that "Toot" is childish, remember when you first heard that on Twitter you "Tweet"?

You got over it, right?

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For everyone who has recently joined Mastodon

An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips

How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpB Y

10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futu ristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021

An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide ToMastodon

You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.

#FediTip #help

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For everyone who has recently joined Mastodon

An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips

How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpB Y

10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futu ristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021

An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide ToMastodon

You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.

#FediTip #help