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
- How to follow a profile
- Dealing with unwanted content
- Sending a direct message
1. Sign up/Sign in: Create your first account on Mastodon
- Step 1: Download “Mastodon for iPhone” on the Apple store or through this link: Get the Mastodon app - Mastodon (joinmastodon.org)
- Step 2: Open the app and touch “Sign up”
- Step 3: Choose an instance
Similar to the website version, you can choose an instance suggested by Mastodon. Or you can find your targeted instance by typing the whole domain.
- Note: You need to type the whole domain for Mastodon to recognize it
Suggestions from Mastodon are divided into categories.
Finding your targeted instance
- Note: You need to type the whole domain for Mastodon to recognize it
- Step 4: Sign up/register
In the mobile version, there is a little difference. Besides filling in username, email address, and password, you need to add a display name. Just need to choose which name you want other people to call you. You can also add your avatar here (optional). - 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: Welcome to your new home!
2. Complete your profile and setting
- To edit your profile, touch the “people icon” right in the down-right corner of your 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 (something you want to share about yourself or anything else)
- Avatar
- Add role (It is the “label” function on the website version to add more information about you such as, where you come from, your school, etc. )
After editing your profile, to edit settings, touch the “saw-tooth” icon in the up-right corner of your screen, and then turn on and off the setting based on your wish. The options are pretty easy to understand. If you want to change the password, choose “Account Settings” and scroll down to add a new password.
3. Boost your first toot
- Step 1: In the “home” section, you will see a “create” icon.
- Step 2: every function is similar to the website version but with a new icon.
4. Search: Find toots and friends
- Right after you successfully sign up, before you can access your feed, in the first section under the “Home” icon, Mastodon will ask you to “Find people to follow” in which they suggest someone you might want to follow (normally active users of the instance). It is a mandatory step. So all you need is to follow one person at least and then choose “Done”.
- Alternatively, you can choose “Manually search instead” by choosing the “magnifying glass” icon to find friends by their username. It is also the place to find toots by hashtag. Every step is similar to the website version.
5. Using timelines: In the mobile version, there will be no separate local timeline and federated timeline. There will be just one timeline called “feed” which can be accessed by choosing the “Home” icon right in the down-right corner. This feed is exactly 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.
- Access a menu of additional options by clicking the “3 dots” icon.
7. How to follow a profile
As long as you encounter a person within your app’s user interface, you can just click “follow” and you won’t notice a difference if that person is on your server or not.
8. Dealing with unwanted content
Click the “3 dots icon” under the toot and choose the option you want.
You can also do this in their profile. The progress is the same.
9. Sending a direct message
There is no direct message function on the mobile app but you can do the same by boosting a toot but changing the privacy to “Only people I mention”
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