Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?

You can ask questions by replying or messaging, and I'll try to find you some answers 🙂

Don't worry if a question seems simple, there is no such thing as a stupid question.

If you prefer to look stuff up yourself, there is lots of help for using Mastodon and the Fediverse on the website at https://fedi.tips (new people might especially like the "Quick Start" section at the top).

#FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse

Trip K
@triplingual@code4lib.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Search on Mastodon doesn't really work for me, by which I mean that when I search for hot news terms or hashtags that are clearly not one-offs I often get no results or very few. How can I tell if this is an issue with fediverse, Mastodon, my instance, my client, or some interaction among some number of those?

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@triplingual@code4lib.social

It's not your client, it's the structure of a federated network where each instance is properly independent: https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server/

There are things you can do about it, and things your admin can do about it, I've tried to list them at https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

If you just want to do one thing, follow as many relevant accounts as possible, you can discover them with many methods: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

If your timeline is overwhelmed, use Lists: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon