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Today’s Mastodon Tweaks

Today I learned how to set up “author attribution” for links to your web site attached to Mastodon posts. I discovered this after sharing a link to ploum on my Mastodon.

Thank you, @14mission for testing the attribution feature for me!

This is a very humane feature, I think. If someone shares your content then Mastodon helps you to connect with their social media profile.

Then I got to thinking about how there are accounts on Mastodon that basically mirror Bluesky. But I never check or post to Bluesky. I could mirror my Mastodon to Bluesky? Yes! Skymoth was super easy to set up. Nice!

I was chatting on Discord and a friend said he wanted to see Mastodon without re-toots. Bluesky has a nice OnlyPosts feature but then I spotted the applicable feature in the Mastodon UI.

Squeeze the “two carats” element to get a submenu.

That left me with one last grouse I have had about Mastodon: the one thing I can not easily block is re-toots of screenshots of X. Or can I? Well, I think I effectively can. The secret is that stuff is mostly re-toots of George Takei, so blocking George Takei ought to do the trick.

George Takei is great but his social media is too much.

Now, I love George Takei as much as anyone. Unfortunately, his social media is a barrage of stuff I don’t want to see that is frequently re-posted. This technique is probably applicable for other popular folks as well.