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Brie Sheldon @briecs

Does anyone have an idiots guide for Mastodon that will help me understand all the tabby things & UI?

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Tremaine @Mainebot

@briecs

Oh its easy:
Home: all the peeps you follow specifically, and their boosts

Notifications: all the interaction with your toots

Local Timeline: the public toots of your specific instance

Federated timeline: all the toots of all the instances connected to yours.

TOOTS
add picture (+description)
Privacy level : public, public but unlisted, followers-only, mentioned users only
Content Warning: for labeling content and hiding the body.

Brie Sheldon @briecs

@Mainebot Cool! What is a boost?
This is all very useful, super appreciated!

Tremaine @Mainebot

@briecs A boost is a retoot, but retoot sounds RIDICULOUS

Brie Sheldon @briecs

@Mainebot it does do so, but this is useful to know! I didn't know that was it.

Craig Maloney ☕ ✅ @craigmaloney

@briecs @Mainebot You can also select the visibility of your media:

Once you upload a picture you'll see an "eyeball" for whether the media should be seen by default or requires a click in order to see.

If you add a Content Warning to a toot it will automatically mark any media as sensitive.

Brie Sheldon @briecs

@craigmaloney @Mainebot that's really cool!

Craig Maloney ☕ ✅ @craigmaloney

@briecs @Mainebot There's also this quick introduction that may be of some help:

ginnymcqueen.com/how-to-mastod

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