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====Pin on profile==== | ====Pin on profile==== | ||
You can pin up to 5 toots on your profile. They will show on top of the other posts.<br> | |||
It's a good idea to pin toots that say something about yourself - like maybe your intro post.<br> | |||
If someone discovers your profile for the first time it might look empty from their point of view of the Fediverse, if it wasn't for your pinned posts. Pinned posts are always discovered with the profile. | |||
====Delete==== | ====Delete==== | ||
This function is quite self-explanatory. It deletes your post. The post won't be recoverable. | |||
====Delete & redraft==== | ====Delete & redraft==== | ||
Mastodon doesn't have an edit toot feature. What comes closest is delete & redraft.<br> | |||
This deletes the post - all boosts, likes and replies will be gone - and you can edit it to post again. | |||
==Someone else's profile== | ==Someone else's profile== | ||
[[File:Mastodon someones profile.png|thumb]] | [[File:Mastodon someones profile.png|thumb]] | ||
Here we'll go through everything that's different on someone else's profile than on your own. | |||
===Follows you=== | ===Follows you=== | ||
If the user follows you this will be displayed on top of the profile. | |||
===Follow/Unfollow=== | ===Follow/Unfollow=== | ||
Next you'll see the follow or unfollow button. If you click on follow it might turn into a "cancel follow request" button instead of the unfollow button.<br> | |||
This happens if the other person locked their profile. | |||
===Notify me=== | ===Notify me=== | ||
===Mention=== | If you follow the profile you'll see a bell symbol besides the unfollow button. Click on it to receive notifications every time the user toots something. | ||
===Mention & direct message=== | |||
We [[Direct message|covered this before]]. | |||
===Hide boosts=== | ===Hide boosts=== | ||
This will hide boosts by that user in your public timelines. This can be useful if the person toots interesting stuff, but boosts too much uninteresting stuff. | |||
===Feature on profile=== | ===Feature on profile=== | ||
You can feature other users' profiles on your [[Profiles in separate tabs|profile in a separate tab]].<br> | |||
They will be displayed as recommendations below your bio. | |||
===Add/remove from lists=== | ===Add/remove from lists=== | ||