Reposting for the day crew:

Hello, new arrivals to mastodon.social! Some thoughts:

mastodon.social is not the only Mastodon instance. Check out https://instances.social to find more niche instances.

mastodon.social has rules. Read https://mastodon.social/about/more for general guidelines.

mastodon.social is not a haven of free speech, and the admins and moderators are pretty leftist. If you're here because Facebook banned a bunch of alt-right accounts and you're Mad About Censorship,

Hello, new arrivals to mastodon.social! Some thoughts:

mastodon.social is not the only Mastodon instance. Check out https://instances.social to find more niche instances.

mastodon.social has rules. Read https://mastodon.social/about/more for general guidelines.

mastodon.social is not a haven of free speech, and the admins and moderators are pretty leftist. If you're here because Facebook banned a bunch of alt-right accounts and you're Mad About Censorship,

While I'm thinking about reports:

The moderators on mastodon.social are ONLY moderators on mastodon.social. We don't have any authority over the behavior of users on other instances.

If you're reporting a user on another Mastodon instance, please remember to check the box that sends your report on to the remote instance's administrators.

There are many Mastodon instances with which your home instance federates but which you might not want to see in your timelines. Fortunately, you can hide all toots from a given instance.

1) In your home instance's web interface, open the account of a user on the server you wish to hide.

2) At the bottom of their profile, next to their follower/following stats, is a "..." menu. Click that.

3) At the bottom of the new context menu, click "Hide everything from <instance>".

You're done!