🚨 Today I learned

Apparently the 'note' field at the bottom of someone's profile is private to you, & you can add a wee note to remind yourself about them

Such as the reason you first followed is b/c they collect mushrooms or love black garlic or something else not listed in their bio or otherwise obvious 😊

Or perhaps you unfollowed them b/c you love their stuff, but they post too frequently & you need to remind yourself not to get sucked in again 😵

Help your brain! 💪

#feditip #toptips

@Her_Doing is this a website only option? I can't seem to see the same thing in the Android app, but perhaps I'm still figuring out where things are here...

@The_lazyknight

Nope! You can definitely use it on mobile devices, but I'm afraid I don't know the technical details.

You might not be seeing it in Android because it's not called Mastodon?

I found this article & perhaps it will help! 🤞

https://www.androidauthority.com/best-mastodon-apps-android-1210889/

Also, as soon as I find it, I'll publicly post a link to Mastodon FAQs in case the answer is there - plus, I bet every admin on every instance is getting slammed right now & would be good to circulate anyway.

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@Her_Doing hrm. Left hand one is directly from the wandering.shop instance in chrime, right hand is in the mastodon app.

It seems that the mastodon app has other chunks of functionality missing. Heyho!

Thanks for the link!

@The_lazyknight

Wow, what a difference! I really can't explain it, I just don't know enough.

I DO know that every admin moderates a tiny bit differently, so different instances have different features turned on - sometimes even different emoticons!

It might be something like that; one app is pulling data from more behind-the-scenes parameters that the other app has turned off.

You are very welcome for the link - I hope it helps! 👍

@Her_Doing @The_lazyknight The functionality is available in the Tusky app if you're looking for an alternative to the main Mastodon app. Thanks for this tip, Her_Doing!

@tommulherin @The_lazyknight

Thank you! I'm getting lots of questions about this!!

Both on my phone & laptop, I just log in from the web (no app), so I didn't know why some people had an issue.