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How to fill your PeerTube server with federated videos If you run your own PeerTube server, when you first load it up it’s totally empty. You can upload your own videos of course, and if you’re running a public server your members can upload videos too. However, it may … Continue reading →

12.11.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to promote your PeerTube videos, account and channels Do you publish videos on PeerTube? Would you like more people to follow you on PeerTube and watch your PeerTube videos? This is a guide to how to make your PeerTube account, channels and videos more discoverable. You don’t have … Continue reading →

09.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to use the Fediverse on your Ghost-powered site Websites powered by the Ghost blogging platform ⧉ are now compatible with the Fediverse, so they can be followed and interacted with from Mastodon etc. (As well as my unofficial guide below, you might also want to check out the … Continue reading →

15.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ghost: Blogs and newsletters on the Fediverse Ghost ⧉ is a very popular free open source platform for creating websites, blogs and newsletters. It includes a paid subscription option, and is intended as a more ethical alternative to Nazi-hosting Substack ⧉. You can now follow Ghost-powered sites … Continue reading →

29.09.2025 15:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to search PeerTube There are several different ways of searching and browsing videos on PeerTube, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Sepia Search Sepia Search is the official PeerTube search engine run by the developers of the PeerTube server software. It tries … Continue reading →

27.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How Mastodon admins can set their server website’s default language By default, Mastodon server websites automatically display themselves in the language of the browser viewing the site. For example, if someone has set their browser language to French they would automatically see most Mastodon server websites in French, even if … Continue reading →

18.08.2025 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to give people early access or exclusive access to your PeerTube videos When you publish a video on PeerTube, the upload screen includes a dropdown menu which lists many different types of visibilities. If you would like to give specific people early or exclusive access to a video, choose the visibilities “unlisted” … Continue reading →

26.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Closing your Mastodon server gracefully No one likes to think about it, but there are lots of different reasons why a server on a network might close down. If you are a Fediverse server admin and want to close down your server, it is important … Continue reading →

22.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How Mastodon admins can communicate with their server’s members If you are a Mastodon admin and you need to communicate directly with your server’s members, there are several ways you can get in touch. Different methods are appropriate for different situations, so you might want to keep all of … Continue reading →

20.07.2025 10:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wanderer: Recording your trails and journeys on the Fediverse Wanderer is a free open source Strava-style platform which lets you store records of your walks and trails online and share them with others. You can record trails directly using GPS data, or you can import existing data from Strava … Continue reading →

07.07.2025 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Manyfold: Organise and Share 3D Printing Files on the Fediverse Manyfold is a free open source Fediverse server type for 3D printing enthusiasts, which lets you upload and share 3D models for prints. It’s intended as a Fediverse alternative to Printables, Makerworld and Thingiverse. Manyfold accounts can be followed from … Continue reading →

27.06.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tips for organisations joining Mastodon and the Fediverse If you run an organisation of any kind (non-profits, businesses, clubs etc), this guide is aimed at helping you get the most out of being on Mastodon and the Fediverse. The Fedi works a bit differently to social networks you … Continue reading →

06.06.2025 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do admins moderate trends on their Mastodon server? If you’re the admin of a Mastodon server, there are lots of options for managing the trending posts, hashtags, links and account recommendations in your site’s trends section. Choose your server’s overall trend settings First of all, you have to … Continue reading →

19.04.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Help! I’ve accidentally blocked a server on Mastodon, what do I do now? How do I restore my follows and followers from that server? If you’re an ordinary user and you block an entire server on Mastodon, that removes all your follows and followers on that server and prevents you seeing anyone or any posts from that server. (Admins have different kinds of server … Continue reading →

06.04.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do I remove followers on Mastodon without blocking them? How do I “soft block”? Mastodon has a “Following and followers” management section you can use to remove followers without having to block them: Does this block selected accounts? No, it does not block them, it just removes them from your followers. If you block … Continue reading →

05.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why is there sometimes a “More From…” section below links on Mastodon? What is “Author Attribution”? When someone posts a website or article link on Mastodon, there is sometimes an additional section below the link’s preview which says “More from…” and has a link to an account profile (see the screenshot above for an example). This … Continue reading →

28.02.2025 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I try to send a DM on Pixelfed, it says “You need to wait a bit before you can DM another account”. What do I do? If you’ve just joined a Pixelfed server and try to send or reply to a DM, it may display an error message saying you need to wait a bit. Don’t worry, this error message will stop appearing 72 hours after … Continue reading →

17.01.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do I import my Instagram account data to Pixelfed? You can optionally import data from Instagram accounts to Pixelfed: It says I have not been permitted to use this feature? If you see this message, it’s nothing personal! It just means the Instagram import feature has been switched off … Continue reading →

14.01.2025 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can I re-use an old subdomain or domain when installing a brand new Fediverse server? If possible, you should avoid re-using subdomains or domains when installing new Fediverse servers. If you set up a new server from scratch using exactly the same subdomain or domain as a defunct server, this may cause technical problems when … Continue reading →

08.12.2024 17:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to customise your Mastodon server’s icons and thumbnail Mastodon server admins can set their own icons for use on browsers and phones, as well as custom thumbnail artwork shown when the server is linked to or listed on sites or apps: What does “Server Thumbnail”, “Favicon” and “App … Continue reading →

09.10.2024 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Should I publish server rules if I’m running a single-person Fediverse server? Yes. It’s a good idea to have some server rules on your server’s public “About” page even if you’re the only person on your server. The reason is other server admins may often be in situations where they have to … Continue reading →

12.08.2024 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to export and download your Mastodon post archive Mastodon lets you download an archive of all the posts and media attachments you’ve ever published on your account. Here’s how to do it: Does it include images etc that I’ve posted? Yes, it includes your posts’ media attachments such … Continue reading →

01.07.2024 13:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are mentions on Mastodon? What does @-ing mean? The word “mentions” on Mastodon and other social networks means typing @ and then a username, so that the username appears in your post. It’s also known as @-ing (pronounced “at-ing”) a person. When you type @ and then begin … Continue reading →

18.06.2024 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desktop apps for Mastodon There are a number of options if you want to use Mastodon on a computer. Mastodon’s website The website version of Mastodon is excellent, and it tends to get all the latest features first. You can be logged in on … Continue reading →

04.06.2024 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are notes on Mastodon? What does “Click to add note” mean on Mastodon profiles? If you’re browsing a profile on Mastodon’s website or web app or some app store apps, you might see an option that says “Click to add note” or something similar. This is a potentially very useful feature, but it isn’t … Continue reading →

30.05.2024 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can see a reply in my timeline on Mastodon but I don’t know the context. How do I see the discussion it belongs to? Just click on any post or reply to be taken to the original discussion thread it belongs to. This will show you the original post and its replies. Is there any way to see the most complete version of the … Continue reading →

16.05.2024 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are Hashtags? How do I use them on Mastodon and the Fediverse? Hashtags are words or phrases with the # symbol at the start. They are used in social media posts to indicate the topic of the post, and they make it easier for people interested in that topic to discover relevant … Continue reading →

11.05.2024 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does Mastodon and the Fediverse use algorithms? Does it push stuff at me based on my interactions? No. There is no algorithm on Mastodon or other Fediverse server types. You can like and follow and share stuff freely without having to worry about it affecting what appears in your timeline. Your Home timeline simply shows all the … Continue reading →

02.05.2024 18:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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