There's apparently scammers going round pretending to be Mastodon admins, demanding people "verify their identity".

Do not click on their links, do not give them any info. It is a scam. Genuine Mastodon server admins never demand verification like this.

Here's a guide to how to recognise and avoid various kinds of scams on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-avoid-scammer…

(Thanks to @amministratore for providing warning about the latest wave of scam posts.)

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Mastodon has a built-in system to prevent you seeing the same post boosted again and again. However, it allows boosts to reappear if 40 other posts have passed through your main timeline, and this is why you may see the same boost repeated.

As the Fediverse is now much busier, Mastodon's devs are raising this number to 80 other posts (technical details are at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…). This should hopefully be in the next update.

(Thanks to @nitrml for pointing this out 🙏 )

#FediTips #Mastodon

Change reblogs to be deduplicated within the last 80 posts instead of the last 40 by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #39784 · mastodon/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - Change reblogs to be deduplicated within the last 80 posts instead of the last 40 by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #39784 · mastodon/mastodon

^GitHub

If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:

1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"

Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.

#FediTips #Mastodon #Boosts

Do you want to write posts that are longer than 500 characters? If so you might want to consider moving your account to a server that supports longer posts.

Here's a list of good, reliable servers that let you write longer posts:

➡️ fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-si…

(All the servers on this list are compatible with the points at fedi.garden/about-this-site )

Here's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide on how to transfer your account to another server:

➡️ fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…

#FediTips #Mastodon

About this site | Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.garden

There are really important reasons why the Fediverse (including Mastodon) is spread out on thousands of fully independent servers:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse…

There are also really important reasons why servers don't store every post from every other server:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastod…

The weird quirks of the Fediverse (including Mastodon) are designed this way specifically to keep the network under the control of ordinary people and grassroots communities.

#FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon

Why aren’t all Mastodon and Fediverse posts and accounts automatically visible from all servers? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips