Important Mastodon Newbie Info 🐘:

There are no ads here,
and this is not a corporation.
This is a Federation  β€‹

The person(s) taking care of everything needed for you to have an account here is likely doing it solely out of generosity for the community. This even costs THEM money. Not to mention the enormous cost in time!

Support your instance’s administration(s) every way you can. This is important πŸ’š

HOW TO ❓

You can find who does this for you by looking up the About page for your server/instance.

You usually can find this page by adding β€œ/about” after your instance’s name in a browser. Your instance name is what is after your handle name, after the second β€œ@β€œ (for example, mine is: infosec.exchange/about).

πŸ‘‰ Help financially if you can: Many administrator(s) will have a page setup for donations. If not, you can ask them   

πŸ‘‰ Offer your time to help if you can: Ask if they need support with moderation and such πŸ’ͺ

πŸ‘‰ Do not use Report as a joke. Only Report when necessary 😌

πŸ‘‰ BE KIND! Cheers them up! Say thanks! They are doing this for you πŸ’š

@Em0nM4stodon thank you! I’ve been wondering how I support the administrator.
@Em0nM4stodon, and it's easy to do it through #Patreon, as I've done for #AusSocial. πŸ‘
@Em0nM4stodon I have a question that I hope you can assist me with. I been logged in in the paste few weeks, using desktop and safari on my iPhone and have had no problems. I was getting an error message with my iPad so I downloaded the Mastodon app for iOS. It works fine too but I can’t seem to locate the CW button when I go to compose a toot in the app. Any ideas?
@Tiffinbitesized I see someone answered your actual question, but just to add - I've seen a lot of people recommending Metatext as a better app for IOS than the original Mastodon one.

@Tiffinbitesized @Em0nM4stodon

For the Mastodon app on my iPhone, I see the Content Warning as...

@Tiffinbitesized @Em0nM4stodon I don't know if you did get your question answered (I don't see all of the toots).

But this site did help me a lot. Plus, using a different app. Different apps seem to have different abilities. (At the beginning I did use an app that didn't even seem to have linebreaks...🀣)

https://fedi.tips

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

@Tiffinbitesized @Em0nM4stodon oops. I saw that I've been reviving a really old tool.

@Em0nM4stodon

Something we Tweeters need to be aware of because it's so different. This place is run by volunteers and is not for profit. Not something we are used to these days.

@redballoonsue @Em0nM4stodon and they do an absolutely amazing job especially at the moment with all the new arrivals
@Em0nM4stodon thank you for the info. I have a question - what if your instance administrator decides to close up shop? What happens to your account?
@ctaylor @Em0nM4stodon you can move to another server. Including all.
https://fedi.tips
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

@Em0nM4stodon My favourite thing right now is people are encouraging us newbies to join and enjoy this social site and not poking us with a stick and complaining. This place already feels like a good fit for me.x

@Em0nM4stodon The one Russian/Chinese/Iranian/Saudi bad actors already tried to report my account once; unlike on the avian droppings container, where a false report would get my account sent into a re-login-loop and/or suspended for some hours and/or indefinitely.

What "sin" did I commit, to be falsely accused and falsely reported for (by an ohai.social account - remember this) you ask?

I mentioned I had seen some bad actor activity from ohai.social accounts.