You may consider hosting your social data out of the USA.
Here is a search tool of Mastodon instances that filters on country:
https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list 🧵

#howTo #EuropeanAlternatives #decoupling #nonAligned #alternatives #nonUS #MastodonMigration #search #discoverability #MastodonGuide #privacy #GDPR #Mastodon #NewHere #Newbie #beginner #FediverseTips #FediTips #FediHelp #MastodonHelp #MastodonTips #MastodonHowTo #resource #resources

Helllo, I have a #MastodonHowTo Etiquette question : Sometimes I really like a post, and I boost it. But I also realize that in the post are some hashtags missing , which would give it a much larger impact, making it more easily found etc.
What is the polite thing to do ? Write a reply that only contains the missing hashtags ? Paraphrase the post in the reply and add the hashtags ? Or is adding new hashtags not the polite thing to do ? Anybody any thoughts ?
PS: did I use the correct hashtag ?

How to find conversations here?

- choose a keyword that stands for an area of interest - for example "joy" or "emissions" or "whiteness"
- look for it from the top box or click: #joy #emissions #whiteness

#howTo #conversations #MastodonHowTo #TwitterMigration #search #discoverability #MastodonGuide #retrieval

There are two effective ways of participating in a discussion topic: #groups and #hashtags.

For example, choose your <topic> and type <topic> in the search box at the top of your screen. Then:
- "Profiles": spot one ending in "@a.gup.pe" then on the right push "Follow";
- "Hashtags": spot an item and then in the top right-hand corner "Follow the hashtag".

You may enter a peculiar discussion below, if it piques you:
#moralBeauty
#SpotAndDiscard [… what distracts from autonomy]
#institutionsDeceive
#judicialBias
#unitary
#fragility
#proZionism [support, allies]
#israelism [foreigners raised to unconditionally love Israel]
#JewishState [citizenship]

@breton

#NewHere #Newbie #beginner #howTo #FediverseTips #FediTips #FediHelp #MastodonHelp #Mastodon #MastodonTips #MastodonHowTo #resource #resources #ToFollow #ToBeFollowed

With which publishing level should you reply to toots? Unlisted? (have only used public up to now 😳) Still trying to learn the best way of using #mastodonhowto

Question for more experienced mastodon users:

How does one post a series of messages which are related to each other ? Usually they are numbered. Is there an accepted etiquette for this on the network?

#mastodon #toots #MastodonHowTo

#PSA

I strongly recommend everybody, just once in a while, to scroll through the federated timeline.

You'll find interesting gems, since not everyone chooses to use hashtags.

I've found great #people , #photography, #jokes, #news , etc

#FediEtiquette #FederatedTimeline #mastodon #noob #NewHere #FediverseTips #FediverseHowTo #MastodonHowTo

Wie kann ich #mastodon so einstellen das meine #-Liste nur deutsche Artikel anzeigt?
#mastodonhelp #mastodonhowto

Questions for #tooters - is there a way to see your own toots in the #Tusky app? And a way to add people to lists in the app?

#MastodonHowTo

If anyone needs to switch instances, this step by step how-to lets you switch and maintain as much of your info as possible. (Follows, bookmarks, blocks, etc.) Very helpful!

I just noticed that all my followed hashtags didn't transfer over, so be sure to follow all those again.

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#TransferringYourMastodonAccountToAnotherServer

#MastodonTips #MastodonHowTo #ChangeInstance

OK #mastodon and #mastodonhowto I give up. How do I get news in my news feed and community in my community feed?

Is there an effective way to thread posts on Mastodon? In my feed I see posts. Many are from the same author, replying to their own post, in a cascading series. Is there a setting I can use to put all of these posts and replies in line? As opposed to saying them randomly in my feed?

#MastodonHowTo #Threading

@erikschroder79 Guten Morgen und willkommen

Ich habe mir diesen Post zu Mastodon markiert: https://rheinneckar.social/@nachtigal/109557511465121711

Vielleicht können noch andere helfen?

#mastodon #mastodonhowto

How to manage “noisy Tooters”? I am interested in a couple of accounts but I get rather annoyed by their binge-posting #mastodonHowTo #feditips #fedihowto

@jambo

Yes. If you go to the settings page under appearance here:

https://hachyderm.io/settings/preferences/appearance

You will see something called "Slow Mode." This will make the timeline stop updating so fast. It's very annoying.

Is the app beeping a lot? That's the other one that tends to drive people nuts...

#mastodonhowto

@bunnytown I don’t see it on yours, but I also don’t see it on a photo I posted last night - and I was so careful to try and be as descriptive as I could. What are we doing wrong?
#AltText #MastodonHowTo

@feditips

I was wondering if that notes field was for sending a PM. But this is also very useful! #mastodonhelp, #mastodonquestions, #mastodonhowto

@kingsley

Here's what I do. See if it works the same, if not let me know.

#mastodonhowto #mastodonquestions #emoji

I've been creeping around looking at a lot of people's accounts (I'm doing a survey) Noticed that people with very few followers have one thing in common: they have not boosted the posts of other people often if at all.

(When I see posts like this encouraging boosting I always think "well that person just wants boosts, whatever") That's not it. On twitter it was important to only boost exceptional content -- boost here to invite more people to join in talking about something. #mastodonhowto

@adrienne
#mastodonhelp #mastodontips #mastodonhowto