#masto — Public Fediverse posts

Anyone know why:

https://social.coop/search?q=%40da5nsy.bsky.social%40bsky.brid.gy+

doesn't work, but:

https://social.coop/search?q=%40da5nsy.bsky.social

does?

@bsky.brid.gy
#MastoMeta #Mastodon #masto
#BridgyFed #bridgy #bridgy_fed #bluesky

Aethy tips!

(Authors note: I'll be making many changes and small fixes to this post frequently, knowing myself. I suggest that you turn off post-editing notifications in your notifications tab :,) Please forgive me!!)

Basic lingo: TL (Timeline), Fedi (Federation, Other mastodon instances, etc..), Fediverse (Large network or sites and instances), Retoots/Boosts are our reblogs/retweets. (idk what else to add here, suggest stuff!)

New to Mastodon? https://fedi.tips/ is super useful in my opinion! Asking the community directly is also OK! Many are willing to help! Some features aren't on Aethy, but if you want them here, you can suggest them to @/staff! (They often look at Aethys Matrix chat, if you want to do it there!) Pick a mastodon app you prefer, Tusky is a popular choice (I could be wrong)

Aethys look. There are currently two themes: Default/Ruffy and Glitch/Mastodon theme. Taullo, the admin is currently working on the Ruffy theme, so features on it might change! Take your time to mess with the settings.

New to Aethy? Welcome! What to do now? You can make a full introduction post with: Your other social medias, hobbies, and fandoms (be sure to use hashtags for them so other people can find their fellow fandom people as Aethy doesn't have full-text search right now, only hashtags are searchable), you can also add what you will be posting and the possible trigger/content warnings. Hastags like #/Intro, #/Introduction, #/NewToAethy. It's good to also add your personal hashtag!
Many are sus of users with default profile pic, so I suggest getting one at least!
You can turn your follower count private, you can choose only accept followers, and there are many settings to look at, don't be afraid to ask for help.

Posts, privacy settings and such

Post formats: Plain text, is just what you see you get! No tricks there. HTML and Markdown both work, and have plenty of articles online to help you (I, Sini, don't know how to do this). As of right now, images only show up at the bottom of the post, so there is no way to use images as dividers.

Post privacy options:

• Local only, feature opts out of fedi timelines, and it makes the post visible to logged-in users only! In case you do not want lurkers or don't want to privatize your entire account,
• Private/Followers, only posts are just that, only visible for followers! Aethy does warn that anyone can see it after following IF you do not have follow-requests enabled.
• Unlisted, Replying option, not a mandatory thing, but many replies are unlisted to not spam Aethys TL. The only downside is posts do not appear in search or under hashtags. It can be used to write longer threads, to again, not spam TLs! (Besides followers home TLs)
• Private mentions (PMs), Conversations, the only way to "DM" someone on here. You can @/mention multiple people and everyone mentioned will be able to see the post.
• You can delete and rewrite a post to change privacy settings if you mess up! Doing so will reset your interactions and break message chains, but that's ok!

Edit logs are public for everyone, so if you post something you don't want others to see, delete and rewrite/re-draft! There is no queue feature on the browser or official Mastodon app, but Tusky app does have one. There is no draft feature either, but many apps do have it! My hack is to create a "draft" by @/ myself, with the posts privacy settings turned to mentioned people only. Then I can work on it, and once done, delete and rewrite/redraft (whichever your app uses)

About looking up stuff: Hastags, use them. My old hashtag suggestion post has plenty of pointers (at the bottom of this post), I might make a larger idea collection post if there is interest in it! :D
Create your own hashtag! Hastags are not case sensitive, but for easier reading, I suggest capitalization for longer hashtags! Don't be afraid to spam your posts with tags, as it's the only way to find things here at the moment! Tag your name/personal hashtag, fandom, type of content/art, and some "for reach" tags like #/MastoArt or #/WritersofAethy. Using symbols besides underscore ( _ ) breaks the hashtag, so tags such as #F/Oimagine will not work.

ALT-text, accessibility, inclusivity.

Use the right language option for your post, we have DeepL here and it makes reading posts in other languages easy, if you have the right option that is. In many mastodon instances, it's curtesy to use ALT-text! There are many sites, articles ect. online to help. Here's one:
https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images . ALT-text also is helpful to everyone who has images autofiltered, as when you hover over the image, you can read what the image is before showing it. Neat!
It can be stressful to come up with good descriptors on the spot, so I personally suggest writing all handwritten text into the description, along with translations if needed. Generally what one is looking at, here's an example: A drawing of an anime character from a series called this on a pale green background. The character is yelling "This is an example! Follow my lead!". Viewers should feel secondhand embarrassment for the character.
Some people use screen-readers (me included), and most screenreaders have varying abilities to read emojis, alternative symbols (for example: ⋆, ︾, Ⅻ) and ALT-text, so I cannot give a full guide, but WIN10s SR at least reads posts normally unless you mistype all the words and use typing quirks! If you think your post isn't screen-reader-friendly, you should put that in the CW!

Filtering out stuff. DO NOT CENSOR WORDS, ever! Censoring words break the filter system, and since we don't have term-based search, you don't need to censor (this includes, meme writings of names, using / or *, leaving out letters) Filters are kinda wonky, here is one guide to them here ! Basically, it takes a lot of time to get your filters to work properly (depending on what you want to filter out!) And the cause of this, I cannot emphasize enough adding words to your posts! Even if it's just art, nothing else, especially if you are not going to CW the post! You can filter post-by-post as well, but it's just THAT post you filter. There is no AI/algorithm that picks up on that post and filters the next ones according to it. Content warnings are explained well on Aethys about page!

Aethy posting culture.

Aethy is a chill place, we talk about many things here, no matter your fandom, background, and posting habits. Rant about IRL happenings, post art memes, go wild with thirst, and link your fanfics! If you don't see a type of post, doesn't mean you can't post it! Many people are here for fandom reasons, sure, but variety is nice!
Posting stuff: We have a culture of using CW warnings to summarize what a post is about! For example: "Fangirling over F/O", "IRL happenings in my personal life", "All caps yelling!!". "Long post"'s here are like 500+ letters (looks long on mobile) But not super needed, but I heavily suggest putting a warning for 1k long posts! There is a setting that auto-collapses posts that are long, but the collapsing function isn't the best since it counts the post by PIXEL, not word count.
Do not be afraid to interact with others! Boosting cool stuff, commission info, raffles, etc. is all good! Boosting your own posts is completely normal, and encouraged since posts tend to get lost (especially if no hashtags were used)! Boosts show up on your profile and your follower's home TL! Favorites are used like on other social media, liking a reply is a "I saw this!", faves are only visible to you under your favorites tab, it's not good to use it to find stuff later, use bookmarks instead! Bookmarking is a private tab, the poster won't get notified of their post being bookmarked. There is no search function in bookmarks unfortunately, hashtag is still the only way (I'm really honing it in haha)
I'm a chatty person, and I often comment stuff. I hope you feel comfortable talking to other people here too. I get that big social media has left people anxious to reach out to others, especially in fandoms with hostile people/antis. But we should be okay here! Even a small comment goes a long way. Without a community Aethy will feel cold and lonely (like those big social media I'm referencing) so let's be social! :D Take your time, feel it out, I believe in us! I'm willing to help and encourage you personally, don't be scared to PM me :3

(my brain is running out, and dyslexia is kicking in, please let me know if there is anything I should add or rewrite!)

OG links:

• Hastag ideas and suggestions
• Welcome guide, old
• My personal guide

#Aethy #AethyTips #Masto #Help #Guide #Saippuatxt #NewtoAethy #WelcomeToAethy