Mastodon

Is the DM button called "Privately mention"? Or is that something else?

I see it everywhere, reddit comments, lemmy, news articles and mastodon itself. How did this misspelling become so common?

Hello. My instance is mindly.social. It used to work fine, but now, when I try to connect, I simply see a Mastodon logo. This is true on both Firefox and Chromium browsers. However, when I use Pachli on my phone, it does connect. I'm not sure what the issue is.

Come give me a follow. Also I never used twitter, anyone have pointer on how to use this style of message board?

On mastodon iOS app, i love it that I can see how many people are talking about specific news. But I don’t really know what people are tooting. Can I even do that?

X would be a good start

Running my own instance, where do you change the max_pinned_statuses? All I find is a variable called PIN_LIMIT, not a value. Is this something you can change?

Came across this article in the latest stuff magazine and in the past, a lot of writers were a little unsure, but seams more positive.

They did create the account a few months ago but only learned about it somewhat recently

I'm looking into setting up Mastodon instance for myself on a very minimal cloud server. To save resources on that box, I'd like to run the web interface on my own server at home, and only have the Mastodon backend running on the VPS. Is it possible to completely get rid of the web interface and only access the instance through the API? What's the best way to achieve this? Does anyone have experience with this, or do you know any useful resources?

Reading this article, and especially the end ...

CEO Jay Graber told The Verge that the plan is to hand over control of the AT protocol to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force.

... it almost sounds as if Bluesky is (going to be) as community-run as Mastodon.

But I'm suspicious. What is the catch?

I've recently moved my mastodon instance off masto.host to a server I own. First thing I changed was the character limit and default UI (to Mastodon-Bird UI). But I was wondering about:

• How to increase the maximum image per post limit.
• How to change poll options, like maximum numer of answers.
• How to increase the alt text character limit.

Maybe there are other cool options I forgot about but you want to share 🙂

Does someone know which files to amend?

I have a mastodon.social account (if the instance I'm on matters). I use VPN and notice I'm getting these emails each time I sign in. My account is also just a post viewing account, so I have no account security concerns.

I checked the settings UI in mastodon and all email preferences are content/interaction-related versus security-related - I couldn't find any way of turning these emails off.

Setting up 2FA to extinguish this is out of the question. Is there a way to turn these emails off on the Mastodon side or are my only options to mark Mastodon emails as spam on the email side (or delete the Mastodon account and go back to viewing without an account)?

TIA! :)

@mastodon How to change icon of Mastodon list.

Just started using mastodon.
Followers, hashtags, bookmarks, list, etc, etc. Lots of backlog man.
Started using lists for organising things better.
Anybody know how to change there icon?
It is a group like icon by default.

I recently discovered that the "Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms" checkbox in the account settings is disabled by default. I didn't even know this option existed.

I'm curious why it's disabled by default. I think most users would want to be featured.

Hi, I’m hosting mastodon for personal use on subdomain.domain.tld — it has a valid ssl cert. The issue is that when I set the vanity server name to domain.tld (no subdomain) and create a Let’s Encrypt cert for domain.tld. The namecheap ssl cert checker says that the Hostname doesn’t match the Common Name or/and the SANs.

I have domain.tld redirect via an Alias record to my Synology server (just like the subdomain) but for some reason it’s fine on the subdomain but not for the root domain.

Any one have any experience with this? TIA.