FINDING PEOPLE AND CONTENT

A lot of people have joined Mastodon, only to then look at their home timeline and see it bare. As there is no algorithm here to fill it with content for you, it is key to learn how to find people to follow from across the Fediverse and how to follow hashtags to help you find the content you are interested in.

The search capability in Mastodon is a bit different to other platforms and so it is important to learn how the #search features work.

Here is a short video on how to best use search to find what you want and I also cover why you may sometimes not initially find what you are expecting.

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https://youtu.be/9cIbSPPszIE

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FINDING YOUR OLD NETWORK

A lot of us already have a large #Twitter #Network and would love to be able to easily search #Mastodon for them to fill out our network here. The #Fedifinder site helps make this a reality and it recently got some updates to make it easier and faster to use.

With the recent changes that have been implemented by Twitter, I can't vouch for how much longer this will work, but it should at least help you get started.

This video walks through the steps to #Migrate your network across in minutes.

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https://youtu.be/37S246Wr_JE

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COMPOSING A POST

Composing a post is one of the first things you will do upon joining Mastodon and I highly suggest creating you introduction post for others to learn a bit about you.

There are many options available to you when composing a post such as using Alt Text for accessibility and Content Warnings where appropriate. You also have options surrounding post language settings and filters to tidy up your timelines.

I have done my best here to cover all of these and more in a short video to make it as easy to follow along with as I could.

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https://youtu.be/Pg0rtrUOoJY

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#BOOST, #LIKE or #BOOKMARK?

Mastodon is extremely different from other platforms in that there is no algorithm or analytics here to dictate what you and others see. As a result, I see people asking things like "When should I boost?", "When should I favourite?" and "How do I save a post?".

Getting the most likes on a post doesn't really mean anything here and so you can freely favourite peoples posts. This is kind of like saying that you have seen the post and you acknowledge it. Basically the same a s "thumbs up" reaction.

If you feel that the content should be shared around and seen by more people, the boost is the way to go. This will then proceed to share the post with your followers as well. This knock on effect can help amplify the message in a big way as your followers can then potentially see and boost a post that they otherwise would not have known about.

Saving a post on other platforms was usually done via liking it etc, but on Mastodon, there is a specific option to bookmark a post. This allows you to easily find it later by visiting its dedicated space in your menu.

Here is a short video guide showing all of these in action and a bit more explanation on them too.

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https://youtu.be/yBs_Mi5_DVs

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#TWEETDECK for MASTODON?

For those of use that made the move over to Mastodon from Twitter, you may be used to using one of the many tools like Tweetdeck or Tweeten to truly enhance your experience. If you were one of these people like me, then you will be super happy to learn that Mastodon has a similar feature built in natively called the Advanced Web Interface.

Here is a short video guide on how to turn this awesome feature on as well as how to leverage a few of the features that it allows for such as multi colums and granular control of each column.

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https://youtu.be/I4l9FjzGywc

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KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Do you love Keyboard Shortcuts as much as I do? Do you possibly have a temporary or permanent impairment that makes using a mouse difficult?

Mastodons web interface has a large selection of keyboard shortcuts that you can use to easily navigate around the interface, make posts and more. This short video guide shows you how to find these shortcuts and will also show you a few of them in action.

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https://youtu.be/fAXn5nxcYRk

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PERSONAL NOTES

A little known feature of #Mastodon is the ability to create your own personal notes about an account.
This is a great way to potentially remind yourself why you follow particular accounts (or just about any other reason you can think of). I have seen some people that even use these notes to keep track of a "three strikes, you're out" rule that they use before blocking someone.

Also, these notes are private. The account does not know what you have written down, nor the fact that you have even made these notes.

Please note that technically your instance admin could theoretically look at these if they were so inclined, but the same could be said about anything on Mastodon for that matter.

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https://youtu.be/npoBM9Ev2CQ

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