Hi @bodewan and welcome aboard! If you have any questions, you can bring it to our attention with the hashtag #MastoHelper - and a Mastodon helper will come to help you out.

@feditips #MastoHelp Paging #MastoHelper please

I'm a #NewMastodian, recently arrived from the ToXic Hellsite.

How do I boost a toot *and* attach hashtags for greater targeted reach?
Or direct a boosted toot to an addressee?

Have given this some thought - perhaps it's not possible here, to prevent negative behaviour eg pile-ons.

Hey, everyone! It's #WelcomeWednesday. It's a day set aside to help newbies and other folks needing help in Mastodon.

If you're ever confused, and unsure of things around here, simply ask your question, tagging it with the hashtag #mastoHelper. That will summon some very kind people to help you - no judgment! They Will come two your thread and with with you to clear things up.

#feditips

Petite question pour les #mastohelper moi qui suit encore débutant par ici mais néanmoins bien décidé à terminer définitivement ma #twittermigration !

J'avais pris l'habitude d'utiliser #birdmakeup pour rapatrier dans mon flux les tweets de quelques personnes qui ne sont pas encore sur #mastodon (ou dont le compte est en jachère ici) mais que je souhaite continuer à suivre. (1/3)

@DystopianGirl Hi! If you need any tips or have questions tag #MastoHelper or #MastoHelp Glad you're here!! 😊

@Tremone66 Welcome! If you want any support or anything, try the hashtag #MastoHelper

Wow. 1000 people boosted my post about being nice and helpful to #Mastodon newbies and a whole bunch said they wanted to be a #MastoHelper
This place is pretty awesome. 💕
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Newbies
https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/110797726760130193

I like toot.io but the 500 character limit is getting very tiresome because of the importance of hashtags. Anyone got suggestions for other instances that also don't have overly trigger happy moderators but do have a longer limit?
Thanks!
#InstanceRecommendation
#InstanceRecommendations
#instance
#instances
#mastodonhelp
#FediHelp
#help
#MastoHelper
#MastoHelp
#question
#questions

I've been thinking about the nature of #ActivityPub. Posts are only visible to you if
1) they were posted on your instance
2) somebody on your instance follows the poster
3) somebody on your instance boosted the post

It's up to us to manage our own networks. #Hashtag searches and #Lists are a great ways to narrow what you see. We should follow and boost everything we find of value, to ensure we and our instance-mates can see it when searching.

#Mastodon #MastoHelp #MastoHelper

@drdrstrange Hashtags here are more for search than anything, think of them like tags. If you're looking for a topic go into search and search by hashtag. The platform doesn't autocomplete because there are no algorithms tracking hashtag use, etc.. A reminder you can also follow a hashtag here, so if you find a useful hashtag you follow it and add it to a list just like a followed user. Maybe others have something to add #HashTags #MastoHelper

@annecavicchi yay! #MastoHelper

If anyone is new to Mastodon and struggling with the platform please ask me anything you want. I'd be very happy to help! I assure you there are no bad questions.
#welcome #MastoHelper #questions #help

I'm 100% available for this! Hit me up, noobs!

#welcome #MastoHelper #questions #help #halp https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/110797726760130193

@PartTime_Nerd no worries! And congrats on making the leap! Don't worry too much about the profile you aren't using. It won't get noticed much if you arent posting from it anyway. There are things you can do to fully migrate to the account you are using permanently and put the redirect the unused one but no biggie. Have any other questions? #MastoHelper

@Tionisla woot! #MastoHelper

@xanna awesome! 🙌 #mastohelper

@RushGirl yay! #MastoHelper

@jamiegood hiya, fáilte. You can use the hashtag #MastoHelper for questions and advice and stuff, too 👍

@jaytee if you have more questions or anything, some people are using the hashtag #mastoHelper to ask for and provide support.

Happy to jump in as a #MastoHelper!

I'm Tom! I found it confusing at first, and I'm still learning new things, but really the basics are exactly that: basic (though it doesn't always feel that way when you haven't figured them out yet).

If you feel you might need a hand getting over the first couple of hurdles, I might be able to help. And if I can't, at least you've met someone who doesn't seem to have absorbed this stuff from the ether. Where I can't help you, I'm pretty certain I'll have someone nice in my network who can.

The best thing to do, if you can't find an answer to a question* you're looking for is to put it in a reply to this post.

*Preferably related to getting started on Mastodon, but I'll give anything a go.