If you know someone who wants help using this place, I can answer their questions directly.
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Fedi.Tipsreplied to Ducky Fella last edited by [email protected]
But, you are scrolling down the page on Mastodon aren't you?
When you open most Mastodon apps it shows you the latest posts and then you scroll down from there to see older ones?
(By the way I'm not being snarky, just genuinely interested in different people's experiences!
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@ianp5a @FediTips I use the default Mastodon android app and read posts in post order. Because new posts show up at the top, I start a session where I left off last time, with some number of new posts above, then scroll up until I run out of new posts. Because I'm scrolling up I see the bottom text of each post before I see the start of it or the author's name/picture, then scroll back down as I read it. It'd be nice if new posts were below so I didn't have to constantly switch scroll direction.
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Strange to me that no one seems to understand your problem. Just click on any post in the thread and you'll be taken to the full thread ordered first to last.
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@stevecut @FediTips
The thread direction is fine. It has newest at the bottom. It's the main timeline that has the problem.People are confusing "threads" with "the main timeline".
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Yes, I understand that, but your timeline problem is solved by clicking on whichever post you see and being taken to the, as you say, logically ordered thread, isn't it?
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@ianp5a @FediTips As best I can tell, the behaviour you're describing -- which also irritates me a lot, too -- is caused mainly by the fact that all posts are Public by default, meaning they stand on their own and will be seen by anyone associated with that user, independent of the context of the post.
I've recommended that posts be Quiet by default for this reason, and about once a month recommend that people set that as their default, so far with limited success.
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Fedi.Tipsreplied to WesDym last edited by [email protected]
Your home timeline shows all posts from people you follow no matter what visibility setting they are. Your DMs show up in the same timeline, for example.
It's just because apps show newest unread posts at the top by default, and they're asking for an option to show the oldest unread at the top.
(What you say is true on the Local timeline though!)
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Luc :bc: :bc: :bc: :bc: :bc:replied to Fedi.Tips last edited by
@FediTips I just wanted to say: thank you for being so kind and helpful. It must be time consuming, but still you do it. Its great that you are here.
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Fedi.Tipsreplied to Luc :bc: :bc: :bc: :bc: :bc: last edited by
Oh, thank you!
That's really really kind of you to say, it makes it worthwhile if these accounts and sites are useful to people 
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@FediTips can you search for people on other kinds of servers (Pixelfed for example) through mastodon or do you have to have a Pixelfed account to specifically find pixelfed users? It would be nice to follow all kinds of other people in one united feed. And is there a way to link a mastodon account to a pixelfed account saying that you're the same person in both places? Just trying to reduce redundancy.
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Accounts from all types of servers will show up in the search results: Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube... whatever.
You can't link two accounts from different servers together, but you can verify that you're the same person by putting a link to your other account in your profiles on both.
