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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
A little birdy told us you needed to know more about Mastodon Ready to escape the drama of existing social media platforms and try something new and awesome in the world of social media? In Mastodon For Dummies, experienced tech trainers Chris Minnick and Mike McCallister show you exactly how to use Mastodon, the hot decentralized social media offering on the web and destination for thousands of social media migrants. Learn how to sign up for the service on your choice of server and get familiar with the rules of what's sure to become your new favorite app. You'll discover how to connect with other people, attract your own followers, and make yourself right at home in the Mastodon community. In the book, you'll find: * Easy-to-follow instructions on how to choose the Mastodon server that suits you best * Instructions for establishing new connections on a new social platform and learning the rules of the road * Tips for conducting business on Mastodon and making a home for your home-based business or brand on the social media service * Step-by-step guides on launching your very own server If you're ready to leave old social platforms in the rear-view and try something new, grab a copy of Mastodon For Dummies.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1: Exploring Mastodon
A Brief Definition of Mastodon
A Brief History of Mastodon
Comparing Mastodon to Twitter
Welcome to the Fediverse!
Understanding Federation
Chapter 2: Digging into Mastodon
Choosing a Server
Signing Up
Customizing Your Profile
Setting Your Preferences
Getting Verified
Securing Your Account
Understanding Mastodon's Three Timelines
Signing in Using the Mobile App
Chapter 3: Finding and Following Friends and Strangers
Searching for Users and Hashtags
Following Other Users
Following Hashtags
Viewing Trending Topics
Blocking and Filtering
Chapter 4: Developing a Following
Finding Your Friends on Mastodon
Boosting and Favoriting
Joining in the Conversation
Using Direct Messages
Chapter 5: Toot, Toot: Writing Effective Posts
Knowing the Lingo
Minding Your Manners: Mastodon Etiquette
Using Hashtags
Enhancing Your Posts
Chapter 6: Mastodon for Business
Doing Business in the Fediverse
Knowing the Policies of a Server
Adjusting to Mastodon
Making Positive Contributions
Running Your Own Server
Chapter 7: Running Your Own Mastodon Instance
Building an Instance
Opening Your Instance to the World
Keeping Your Instance Running: System Administration
Enforcing the Rules: Moderators
Contributing to the Mastodon Project
Chapter 8: Ten Tools that Integrate with Mastodon
Metatext
tooot
Whalebird
Subway Tooter
Tusky
TheDesk
Toot!
Tootle
Halcyon
Hyperspace
Chapter 9: Exploring Other Fediverse Platforms
Index
About the Authors
Connect with Dummies
End User License Agreement
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1
FIGURE 1-1: A Wayback Machine image of the mastodon.social about page on May 6,...
Chapter 2
FIGURE 2-1: Your first stop should be joinmastodon.org.
FIGURE 2-2: Checking out the servers.
FIGURE 2-3: Reading the server descriptions.
FIGURE 2-4: Signing up on a server.
FIGURE 2-5: Congratulations! Click the link in the email, and then continue to ...
FIGURE 2-6: Follow some or all of the recommended users.
FIGURE 2-7: Click Edit Profile under your username.
FIGURE 2-8: Adding a display name, bio, header image, and avatar.
FIGURE 2-9: Choosing basic options and setting metadata.
FIGURE 2-10: Viewing your profile.
FIGURE 2-11: Adding featured hashtags.
FIGURE 2-12: Selecting a theme.
FIGURE 2-13: Getting your verification link.
FIGURE 2-14: Success! You're verified.
FIGURE 2-15: Check marks are used on that other site.
FIGURE 2-16: The two-factor authentication page.
FIGURE 2-17: Keep your recovery codes safe and secret.
FIGURE 2-18: The home timeline shows posts from people you follow.
FIGURE 2-19: The local timeline displays recent posts by those on your home ser...
FIGURE 2-20: The federated timeline displays all posts.
FIGURE 2-21: The Mastodon app in the App Store.
FIGURE 2-22: The Mastodon app's home screen.
FIGURE 2-23: Entering the name of your server.
FIGURE 2-24: Allowing the app to sign in using your server.
FIGURE 2-25: Logging in to your Mastodon account on your mobile device.
FIGURE 2-26: The two-factor authentication screen at login.
FIGURE 2-27: Google Authenticator.
FIGURE 2-28: Welcome to the Mastodon app!
FIGURE 2-29: The Find People to Follow screen.
FIGURE 2-30: The Home timeline in the Mastodon app.
Chapter 3
FIGURE 3-1: The Mastodon search box and search help box.
FIGURE 3-2: Searching for a user by display name, username, or address.
FIGURE 3-3: Finding hashtags with partial matches.
FIGURE 3-4: Trunk for the fediverse.
FIGURE 3-5: The Explore page.
FIGURE 3-6: The follow icon for following a hashtag.
FIGURE 3-7: The Trending Now graphs.
FIGURE 3-8: Viewing more trending hashtags on the Hashtags screen.
FIGURE 3-9: The Add New Filter form.
FIGURE 3-10: Adding keywords to a new filter.
FIGURE 3-11: Blocking or muting a user.
FIGURE 3-12: Are you sure you want to mute them?
FIGURE 3-13: The Unblock button on a user's profile.
FIGURE 3-14: Specify why you're reporting a profile or a post.
Chapter 4
FIGURE 4-1: Logging into your Mastodon server from Twitodon.
FIGURE 4-2: Twitodon scans accounts you follow on Twitter.
FIGURE 4-3: Mastodon's Import page.
FIGURE 4-4: Fedifinder scans your Twitter contacts for Mastodon addresses.
FIGURE 4-5: The Invite People page.
FIGURE 4-6: Your personal Mastodon invitation.
FIGURE 4-7: A Mastodon post, with the row of icons below it.
FIGURE 4-8: The Share Link window.
FIGURE 4-9: Opening a direct message post window.
FIGURE 4-10: Composing a direct message.
FIGURE 4-11: Viewing your sent and received direct messages.
Chapter 5
FIGURE 5-1: Good conversations are civil and often solve problems.
FIGURE 5-2: Adding a hashtag to your post lets more readers see it.
FIGURE 5-3: Use these icons to add different types of content to your posts.
FIGURE 5-4: In the Mastodon app, click the emoji in the Edit Post bottom menu.
FIGURE 5-5: Click the emoji in the upper-right part of the Edit Post window.
FIGURE 5-6: Provide alternative text for your image.
FIGURE 5-7: Mastodon polls don’t have to be serious.
FIGURE 5-8: Mastodon polls allow you to select up to four response choices.
FIGURE 5-9: Privacy options let you choose who sees your post.
FIGURE 5-10: Enter your public warning content in the top box and the sensitive...
FIGURE 5-11: The recipient can view hidden content by clicking Show More.
FIGURE 5-12: Click Translate to see what this German-language post says.
FIGURE 5-13: This post is excellent!
Chapter 6
FIGURE 6-1: None of these is actually Twitter.
FIGURE 6-2: A sample corporate covenant.
FIGURE 6-3: The corp.social business-friendly instance.
FIGURE 6-4: Making a donation to your instance administrator.
FIGURE 6-5: Making a donation to Mastodon.
FIGURE 6-6: Viewing business sponsors of Mastodon.
FIGURE 6-7: Becoming a Mastodon sponsor.
Chapter 7
FIGURE 7-1: Choose whether you want to use your own domain or Masto’s.
FIGURE 7-2: Set up a payment plan for Masto.host.
FIGURE 7-3: Setting your MyMasto hosting account password.
FIGURE 7-4: Your Masto dashboard page.
FIGURE 7-5: Your Masto hosting page.
FIGURE 7-6: Define the owner of the Mastodon instance.
FIGURE 7-7: When you open Preferences, you’re taken to the Appearance section.
FIGURE 7-8: Click Generate Invite Link to send links to your Mastodon instance ...
FIGURE 7-9: Choosing how users can sign up is an admin or owner decision.
FIGURE 7-10: Extended descriptions can include the code of conduct.
FIGURE 7-11: Make one server rule at a time.
FIGURE 7-12: User reports enable you to take action to keep the instance safe.
Chapter 8
FIGURE 8-1: The Metatext app.
FIGURE 8-2: The tooot app.
FIGURE 8-3: The Whalebird desktop app.
FIGURE 8-4: Subway Tooter for Android.
FIGURE 8-5: Tusky for Android.
FIGURE 8-6: TheDesk Mastodon desktop client.
FIGURE 8-7: Toot! for iOS.
FIGURE 8-8: Tootle for iOS.
FIGURE 8-9: The Halcyon client.
FIGURE 8-10: The Hyperspace app.
Chapter 9
FIGURE 9-1: PeerTube offers video producers and fans an algorithm-free experien...
FIGURE 9-2: Get answers, technical support, and discussion in a Discourse commu...
FIGURE 9-3: The home page at Pixelfed lets you start following people right awa...
FIGURE 9-4: After writing your first post, check the Preview tab in the editor ...
FIGURE 9-5: Find and share music and podcasts at Funkwhale.
FIGURE 9-6: Adding your books to BookWyrm.
FIGURE 9-7: Borrow and lend books on Inventaire.
FIGURE 9-8: Share links and join communities with Lemmy.
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Introduction
Welcome! Whether you're curious about Mastodon as an alternative to billionaire-owned corporate social media platforms or because you've noticed that many of your favorite people are joining Mastodon, this book is your friendly and easy-to-use step-by-step guide.
Maybe you're trying to decide whether to join Mastodon. Or maybe you've already joined Mastodon and are looking to get the most out of it. Or maybe you stumbled over some of the technical details of signing up on your first attempt but you're ready to give it another go. Whatever your reasons for wanting to learn more about Mastodon, we believe that you now hold in your hands (or on your screen) the easiest, friendliest, and most complete guide available!
For those of us (like Chris) who came to Mastodon because we had a sudden epiphany that we no longer liked Twitter, after spending way too much time on it, Mastodon feels like a breath of fresh air. But it's a different kind of fresh air — like a sea breeze at a beach full of interesting people you want to talk to, rather than angry knuckleheads, salespeople, and snake-oil peddlers.
For those of us (like Michael) who came to Mastodon in its early days because of the cool technology and its potential to change the way the web works for the better, the sudden popularity and success of Mastodon is proof that social media doesn't need to be corporate owned and that online communities can form and become sustainable without profit motive.
Thank you for choosing us to be your guides as you take your first steps into the world of Mastodon.
About This Book
This book is designed for people who are either new to Mastodon or have some experience but want to learn how to make better use of it. You'll discover, in plain English, the most important and useful things to know:
Learning the history of Mastodon
Understanding how Mastodon is different from and similar to Twitter
Knowing what it means that Mastodon is distributed
Signing up for a Mastodon account
Learning how to log into the Mastodon mobile app and the website
Customizing your Mastodon profile
Configuring important preferences in Mastodon
Getting a verified link on Mastodon
Securing your Mastodon account
Using Mastodon's three timelines
Searching for and finding other users
Following other users
Using hashtags on Mastodon
Viewing trending topics
Blocking users and servers
Getting followers
Interacting with people and posts
Using direct messages
Understanding how moderation works
Posting images and video
Creating polls
Doing business on Mastodon
Making positive contributions as a business on Mastodon
Setting up and running your own Mastodon website
As you read this book, keep the following in mind:
The book can be read from beginning to end, but feel free to skip around if you like. If a topic interests you, start there. You can always return to previous chapters, if necessary.
At some point, you'll get stuck, and something won't work as you expect. Do not fear! Many resources are available to help you, including Mastodon's documentation (at
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
), other people on Mastodon, and us! You can send Chris Minnick a public message on Mastodon at @
and you can send Michael McCallister a public message at @
. Make sure to use the hashtag #mastodonFD!
In the book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If you’re reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as it’s noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesn’t exist. If you’re reading this as an e-book, you’ve got it easy – just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.
Foolish Assumptions
We make only a few assumptions about you, the reader.
We assume that you have a computer running a modern web browser or a mobile device running Android or iOS. The instructions and screenshots in the book were tested and optimized using the Chrome browser, which is available for free from Google. Even so, all the instructions and websites mentioned will work in the latest version of Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and any other modern web browser.
We assume you have access to an internet connection. Just as with any social network or mobile app, you won't be able to do much with Mastodon if you're not connected to the internet.
Icons Used in This Book
Here are the icons used in the book to flag text that should be given extra attention or that can be skipped.
This icon flags useful information or explains a shortcut to help you understand a feature or concept.
Try not to forget the material marked with this icon. It signals an important concept or process that you should keep in mind.
This icon explains technical details about the concept being explained. The details might be informative or interesting but are not essential to your understanding of the concept at this stage.
Watch out! This icon flags common mistakes and problems that can be avoided if you heed the warning.
Beyond the Book
Extra content that you won’t find in this book is available at www.dummies.com. Go online and type Mastodon For Dummies Cheat Sheet in the Search box to see the following:
Cheat Sheet:
The online cheat sheet provides additional tips for using Mastodon and building your following.
Updates:
Mastodon is growing and improving rapidly. As such, some of the instructions or screenshots in this book may not be exactly correct when you read this book. You'll find updates to the book, as well as a place to report errors that you may find.
Where to Go from Here
Are you ready to get started? Turn the page! Remember: You don't have to read this book in order from start to finish. If you're most interested in learning how to sign up for Mastodon, go straight to Chapter 2. If you want to know whether Mastodon would be a good fit for your business, check out Chapter 6. If you want to get technical and find out how to get started with setting up your own Mastodon server, go straight to Chapter 7.
No matter where you decide you're going to start reading this book, we're glad you are. And we're looking forward to seeing you on Mastodon!
Chapter 1
Exploring Mastodon
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding what Mastodon is all about
Reading a brief history of Mastodon
Seeing the differences between Twitter and Mastodon
Introducing the fediverse and federation
You’ve probably heard that Mastodon is the open-source Twitter or a Twitter alternative. There’s certainly some truth to those definitions, but they don’t really tell you all that much about Mastodon itself.
It’s true that Mastodon is a microblogging service like Twitter. You can post short messages of up to 500 characters that friends and strangers can read and respond to. You can share links to news, information, photos, and video from across the internet.
But Mastodon is far from being a Twitter clone. It operates on a different economic model and isn’t owned by anyone, especially a celebrity billionaire.
