Ed BottNov 8, 2022

I just wrote a quick guide on how to get started with Mastodon, for a non-technical but not tech-phobic audience. If you have any fact-checks or suggestions, feel free to reply here.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/getting-started-with-mastodon/

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A reader asks if there's any easy way to translate a Mastadon post into their own language. That's a built-in function on Twitter; is it possible here?
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And a quick answer from @xatlasm

Translation is coming in the upcoming Mastodon 4.0 release, which is available as a Release Candidate right now.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

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Note: This is a release candidate. It is intended to be stable, but not guaranteed. Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires two-step database m...

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