Table of Content
- Sign up: Create your first account on Mastodon
- Complete your profile and setting
- App setting
- Boost your first toot
- Using timelines
- Interacting with people’s posts
- Explore: Find toots and friends
- How to follow a profile
- Sending a direct message
- Dealing with unwanted content
1. Sign up: Create your first account on Mastodon
- Step 1: Download “Tusky for Mastodon” on Play Store or through this link: Tusky for Mastodon – Apps on Google Play
- Step 2: Open the app and type the domain name of the instance you want to join and click “LOGIN WITH MASTODON“
- Note: You need to type the whole domain for Mastodon to recognize it
- Note: You need to type the whole domain for Mastodon to recognize it
- Step 3: Then, choose “Sign up“ to create a new account.
- Step 4: Sign up/register
- Step 5: Activate your account
After you fill in all the required fields and click “Continue”, the system will send you a confirmation email.
You only need to open the mail and click “Confirm and return to Mastodon for IOS” to activate your account. - Step 6: Get back to the Tusky app and log in again. Then, click “Authorize“ and “agree” the “Usage Agreement” to finish the first log-in process.
2. Complete your profile and setting
- To edit your profile, touch your avatar in the up-left corner of the screen. Then choose “Edit profile“.
- Some basic information that you can fill in includes:
- Display name (the name that you want other people to see)
- Bio: A short description of you
- Profile picture & Header picture
- Add label: add more information about you such as, where you come from, your school, etc. )
3. Add and Rearrange Tabs
The default theme of Tusky only contains Home Timeline, Notification, Local and Federated timeline tabs. However, you can add some other tabs that are not less important. A direct message is one of them. To add new tabs, follow these steps:
- Step 1: Choose the avatar in the up-left corner and choose “Account Preferences”
- Step 2: Then, choose “Tabs“
- Step 3: Choose the “plus“ button to add tabs, and touch and slide the “6 dots“ icon on the left of the tabs to rearrange the order.
4. Boost your first toot
- Step 1: On the home screen, choose the “pen“ button.
- Step 2: Every function is similar to the website version but with a new icon.
- Note: in Tusky, you can schedule a toot by clicking the “clock“ icon and setting up the time.
5. Using timelines
Depending on your tabs arrangement, you can have access to these timelines right from the home screen.
- “House” icon tab is the Home timeline
- “2 people“ icon tab is the Local timeline
- “Global“ icon tab is the Federated timeline.
6. Interacting with people’s posts
You can perform quick actions on a post directly from the timeline, or you can click on the post to load an expanded view that shows extra information, such as a full timestamp, interaction counts, and threaded replies if any. The following actions can be performed on a post:
- Reply to a post by clicking the arrow icon. Your toot will show up in the thread below the post you are replying to.
- Boost a post by clicking the cycled-arrow icon. The post will be reshared on your profile.
- Favourite a post by clicking the star icon. The post will be added to your favourites list, and a favourite notification will be delivered to its author.
- Bookmark a post by clicking the “ribbon“ icon. The post will be saved in the bookmark tab.
- Access a menu of additional options by clicking the 3 dots icon.
7. Explore: Find toots and friends
You can find other users and toots by choosing the “magnifier“ icon at the top right corner. Mercury divides these search functions into 3 separate search boxes.
8. How to follow a profile
- As long as you encounter a person within your app’s user interface, you can click their profile picture and then click “follow” to follow them. Their toots will appear on your home timeline.
- You can see the following list and follower list by going to your profile.
9. Sending a direct message
On Tusky, you can send a direct message to someone by writing a normal toot, tagging the one that you want to send a message to and, choosing the “global icon” to change the privacy setting to “Direct”. Then send the toot.
10. Dealing with unwanted content
On Tusky, as a user, you can deal with unwanted content using any of the 3 options described below:
- Filtering
It is possible to filter statuses for specific keywords and phrases so that they can be hidden automatically.
- Step 1: To create or manage your filters, choose the avatar to go to “account preferences’’. Scroll down to the “Filters“ section. Here, you can manage sensitive posts by allowing them not to show or not show in a specific timeline. Tusky will show you a list of timelines and other places where you can apply filters on.
- Step 2: Choose the timeline or place that you want to put on the filter. The “plus“ button will let you create a customized filter. Existing filters will also show up here and they can be edited or deleted.
- Step 3: After clicking the “plus“ button, fill in the “Phrase to filter“ field and choose “ok“ to finish the process.
- Step 1: To create or manage your filters, choose the avatar to go to “account preferences’’. Scroll down to the “Filters“ section. Here, you can manage sensitive posts by allowing them not to show or not show in a specific timeline. Tusky will show you a list of timelines and other places where you can apply filters on.
- User-level actions:
Each user has the ability to mute, report, or block users or the whole instance that that user belongs to. Don’t hesitate to do this if you find something or someone that bothers you. You can do it right at the toot, or go to that user’s profile.
- Step 1: Click the “3 dots icon” under the toot or up-right corner of the user’s profile.
- Step 2: Choose the actions you want to do
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Muting: When muting, you have the option to mute notifications from another user or not. Muting without muting notifications hides the user from your view, therefore:
- You won’t see the user in your home feed
- You won’t see other people boosting the user
- You won’t see other people mentioning the user
- You won’t see the user in public timelines
- If you choose to also mute notifications from another user, you will additionally not see notifications from that user. Mutes can also have an optional duration, after which they will expire. The user has no way of knowing they have been muted.
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Blocking: Blocking hides a user from your view and as such:
- You won’t see the user in your home feed
- You won’t see other people boosting the user
- You won’t see other people mentioning the user
- You won’t see the user in public timelines
- You won’t see notifications from that user
Additionally, on the blocked user’s side:
- The user is forced to unfollow you
- The user cannot follow you
- The user won’t see other people’s boosts of you
- The user won’t see you in public timelines
- If you and the blocked user are on the same server, the blocked user will not be able to view your posts on your profile while logged in.
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Blocking an entire domain (instance): If you block an entire server:
- You will not see posts from that instance on the public timelines
- You won’t see other people’s boosts of that server in your home feed
- You won’t see notifications from that instance
- You will lose any followers that you might have had on that instance.
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Reporting problematic content to moderators
If you see a status or user that is violating the rules of your website, you can report that user to your site’s moderators. Clicking the “report” option on the user dropdown or status dropdown will open the report modal. Here, you can (and should) add a note about why you are reporting this account. You can attach certain problematic statuses for additional context on why you are reporting the account, and if their conduct is violating the rules of the remote website, you can also choose to forward the report to their site’s moderators.
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- Step 1: Click the “3 dots icon” under the toot or up-right corner of the user’s profile.
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