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Can I ask a favour?
If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?
I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.
Thanks 🙏
@FediTips
Thanks for that! I gave up on Facebook & pretty much all social media years ago, then heard about Mastodon. So far, so good!
Great to hear! 🙂
I always do :D
@FediTips Kudos for what you do, it is appreciated!
@FediTips Oh, there we go, relevant to one of my recent posts, why do I see posts as barely having any Favourites and even the ones that do have them, when I go to see who Favourited it, it shows no one?
The numbers and favourites below a post are lower priority on here, and they don't necessarily get updated as often or as widely as the numbers on the original version of a post. You can check what the most accurate numbers and favourites are on a post by going to its "original page", more info at https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon
@FediTips I see it now, went to this: https://wetdry.world/@micr0/115375745664561354 post and although it shows 1 Favourite for me, I went to the server it's hosted on and suddenly…1.500 Favourites…Now the Fediverse seems way bigger than it did to me.
Yup! Basically, it's easier not to pay attention to numbers on here, they aren't considered important 🙂
There was concern from the developers and early users on here about how people were trying to "farm" numbers on Twitter, Instagram etc. By downplaying the numbers, it avoids encouraging lots of fake engagement. That's why you can't even see the numbers if you're just browsing your main timeline, to prevent them mattering so much.
@FediTips Really smart, great job on whoever came up with that.
@FediTips Thanksss!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️
@FediTips thank you. I’ve been trying to figure out how to build lists like I can in bluesky
@FediTips You're the best!
@FediTips couleur we consider launching a translation ?
I can't host any translations because it would get very complicated to keep them up to date.
However, the text on my site is available to anyone under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike, so there are people who have made their own translated tips sites using my text.
There are a couple in French:
https://enthalpiste.fr/fr/fedi/fedi
https://www.didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guide-mastodon
@FediTips
thank you for doing this!
@FediTips ai need some help! I want to post some code, but if I use the ``` code here ``` method nothing seems to happen to me.
But I've seen someone post code in detailed format. So, how is it possible?
Ordinary Mastodon, which your server mastodon.uno is using, does not let people add text formatting.
However, some servers are running altered versions of Mastodon which do allow people to format text.
Ordinary Mastodon can display formatted text, even though it cannot write it.
There is lots more information about this topic in this guide: https://fedi.tips/is-mastodon-compatible-with-rich-text-formatting-such-as-markdown/
@FediTips thanks for all your work in making Fedi welcoming! 🤗
@FediTips Hope you eventually integrate more languages, I'd like to help with Spanish translation.
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