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1. Fedi.Tips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Aug-2021 21:44:26 UTC Fedi.Tips

   If you're new to Mastodon, here are some useful basic terms:

   "Instance" - The site you signed up on, for example FediTips is on the https://mstdn.social instance

   "Federation" - How instances talk to each other. People on different instances can interact with each other thanks to federation.

   "Toot" - A post, a message. Mastodon's equivalent of a tweet.

   Boost - Sharing a toot by pressing the boost icon below it (the one that looks like this 🔃 ).

   #MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse

   • Fedi.Tips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Aug-2021 21:44:24 UTC Fedi.Tips

     in reply to

     Fediverse addresses look like this:

     @ username @ instance

     So, for example, the FediTips address is:

     @ feditips @ mstdn.social

     (but without the spaces)

     You can @ people with this address on the Fediverse, and it works just like @ -ing people on Twitter.

     A Fediverse address is longer than a Twitter address because the Fediverse is made up of thousands of independent instances, so Fediverse addresses have to include which instances people are on.

     #FediTips #Fediverse #MastoTips #Mastodon

   • Fedi.Tips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Aug-2021 21:44:25 UTC Fedi.Tips

     in reply to

     Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, a collection of independent social networks which talk to each other using a common technical standard called ActivityPub.

     People you follow on Mastodon might actually be on other networks like PixelFed (https://pixelfed.org) or PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org), or many others.

     Because the Fediverse uses a common standard, interaction between the different types of networks is so seamless that it feels like one network.

     #FediTips #MastoTips #Fediverse

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