Kzoo.to is a community Mastodon server for the Kalamazoo area in Michigan, USA:
You can find out more at https://kzoo.to/about or contact the admin @notsle
#FeaturedServer #Kalamazoo #KalamazooMI #Michigan #MI #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Sunny.garden is a Mastodon server for indie creators who draw, paint, sculpt, write, design, program, play, sing or build, and anyone else who thinks that sounds like a nice place to be.
Posts on sunny.garden can be up to 1500 characters long.
You can find out more about the server at https://sunny.garden/about or contact the admin @brook
#FeaturedServer #Art #Artists #Creative #Creatives #Writing #Painting #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Datasci.social is a Mastodon server for nice and diverse people who are researching human-centric data science and adjacent topics such as human-centric network science, social data science, urban/geospatial data science, computational social science.
You can find out more at https://datasci.social/about or contact the admin @mszll
#FeaturedServer #DataScience #NetworkScience #Geospatial #SocialScience #Science #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
#Mastodon is the powerful war rig in the #Fediverse army against the axis of biased social networks; #snac is the little buffon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.
#CrazyFediverseAnalogies
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DJs.social is a Mastodon server for DJs (and related fields) of any kind, including club DJs, radio, mobile sound-systems, livestreaming etc.
Find out more at https://djs.social/about or contact the admin @luka
#FeaturedServer #DJ #DJs #Music #Radio #SoundSystems #ClubDJs #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Please share: Our Max Planck Institute recently left X and is present here on Mastodon. Give them a follow! Beautiful pictures from the science of light!
#Mastodon #Physics #Science #Light #Quantum #Optics #Photonics #Pictures
From: @MPI_ScienceOfLight
https://wisskomm.social/@MPI_ScienceOfLight/113906463840724222
Mountains.social is a Mastodon server focusing on hiking, mountaineering, climbing, backpacking and the outdoors.
Mountains.social has an extended post size of 1000 characters per post.
You can find out more at https://mountains.social/about or contact the admin @bergmeister
#FeaturedServer #Hiking #Climbing #Outdoors #Backpacking #Mountaineering #Climbers #Hikers #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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There are many post visibility settings on Mastodon:
🌎 Public - Everyone can see it
🌘 Unlisted/Quiet Public - Everyone can see it but it won't show up in search results or trends
🔒 Followers Only - Only your followers can see it
@ Mentions/Specific People - Only people you mention can see it, often used for DMs
WARNING: If you mention someone's account (if you @ them), they will be able to see that post on ALL visibilities.
Lots more info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon
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By request, I've tried to do a guide for organisations that are interested in joining Mastodon and the Fediverse:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/tips-for-organisations-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
Any kind of feedback would be appreciated, especially if you are running an organisation's account.
One of the nicest things about individual Mastodon servers is they have custom emoji 
These emoji are visible to other servers so everyone can see them, but only people on a particular server can post them.
You can access custom emoji by clicking the 🙂 smiley button within the app or web interface. (On mobile apps, the non-custom emoji are accessed by clicking the other smiley button on your phone's keyboard.)
More info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-are-custom-emoji-how-do-i-access-them-can-i-add-new-ones
in #Mastodon #Akkoma #Pleroma #GotoSocial you can hide your follower and following lists from public view
DJs.social is a Mastodon server for DJs of any kind, be it in the club, radio, mobile sound-systems, livestreaming etc. Also related fields welcome.
You can find out more at https://djs.social/about or contact the admin @luka
#FeaturedServer #DJs #Music #DJMusic #ClubDJ #RadioDJ #SoundSystems #Radio #Clubbing #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Besides the dozens of #mastodon apps on the #AppStore I've found seven #lemmy apps, four #pixelfed apps, and two #neodb apps!
https://codeberg.org/technicat/lemmy-ios
https://codeberg.org/technicat/pixelfed-ios
https://codeberg.org/technicat/neodb-ios
There is an optional feature on Mastodon which lets you automatically delete your posts after a certain amount of time:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/deleting-posts-automatically-in-mastodon-after-a-certain-time-period
If you activate this, your posts that are older than a certain number of weeks, months or years are automatically deleted by your server.
The setup process for autodelete also lets you choose types of post or specific posts not to delete.
(If you want to keep everything, just don't activate autodelete 🙂 )
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My latest blog post: Migrating my Mastodon server to Masto.host
https://mikecoats.com/migrating-to-masto-host/
I migrated my Mastodon server from a self-hosted DigitalOcean droplet to an instance provided by Masto.host. The process was straightforward and took less than an hour.
You can remove followers without blocking them by using Mastodon's follower management system:
1. Sign in on your server’s website or web app
2. Click ⚙️ Preferences
3. Click "Follows and followers" (if you’re on a phone click ☰ and then "Follows and followers")
4. In the Relationship section click on Followers
5. Select the followers you want to remove
6. Click on "Remove selected followers"
More info:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-remove-followers-on-mastodon-without-blocking-them
This is also known as "soft blocking".
Hey new people, you don't have to use the official Mastodon app! There are lots of other options you can use such as third party apps etc. People who try these alternatives usually prefer them.
Unlike most social networks, Mastodon doesn't impose any particular app on you. You're free to use your account in whatever way works best for you.
Here is a guide to all your options:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app
You can be logged in with the same account on many apps at once 🙂
Bienvenidos a masto.es, servidor de Mastodon para hispanohablantes de temática general. Ampliación del límite de caracteres en una publicación a 2000 caracteres.
Acerca de: https://masto.es/about
Administrado por: @rober
#FeaturedServer #Español #Hispanohablantes #España #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Fediverse.Games is Waiting for You!
Are you looking for a friendly, inclusive fediverse community? Fediverse.Games has a variety of services, and we're taking on new members on all of them!
The Services
Mastodon
Our OG service is Mastodon! We run glitch-soc, which gives you longer posts, markdown formating, and plenty of other fun stuff!
PeerTube
The second (and fastest growing!) service we offer is PeerTube. Our PeerTube allows import from your YouTube channel and 50GB of free video hosting!
WriteFreely
We've recently added WriteFreely to our services! It isn't a perfect service, but it's the best option of those available and we think it's a great addition, and we hope the long-form games writing community will grow with our contribution to it.
The Rules
We wish to run a friendly, kind and inclusive server, and do not have any tolerance for discrimination or bigotry of any kind, including but not limited to racism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia. It can be hard enough for people to be their true selves offline, let's not make it harder online too.
We also have no tolerance for the promotion or nazi, alt-right and ultra-conservative ideologies.
In the pursuit of accessibility, we ask users to add alt-text to their images where they're apply to for the advantage of those using screen readers to interact with us. However, we also do not tolerate abuse toward users who might forget to do so or aren't used to doing it yet.
Legal Status
All of our infrastructure and user data is held in Australia.
Further Reading
We also have a wiki, where you can read our server charter and what we can expect of each other in more detail:
Photo by Rebeca Alvidrez on Unsplash
#Mastodon #PeerTube #WriteFreely #JoinMastodon #PeerTubeInstance
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Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish:
You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet
#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scots #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Rail.chat is a Mastodon server for anyone interested in passenger and freight trains, their connection to transit and other non-car options, and their benefit to society:
You can find out more at https://rail.chat/about or contact the admin @conductor
cc @trains
#FeaturedServer #Trains #Rail #Railways #Railroads #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse