#mastodontips

Y’all! Please, please, please use appropriate passwords. We’re seeing a big spam campaign across the fediverse, using hacked accounts.

First, change your fediverse password. Especially if it’s reused elsewhere, short/weak, or really old.

Then, here are some simple steps to protect you and your accounts:

1. Never reuse passwords. Use a password manager so you’ll only have to remember one password.

2. Make sure your passwords are secure. They should be 12+ characters with at least one capital letter and one special character. Good password managers have a generator built-in.

3. Set-up multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA).

4. Use passkeys wherever possible.

If you need help, ask someone. Folks who know will help.

#Passwords #Security #InfoSec #OpSec #2FA #MFA #Mastodon #Fediverse #FediTips #MastodonTips

There is no shame in posting the same thing repeatedly or boosting your own posts. On Mastodon it's the necessity, different people are awake during different hours. #Mastodon #MastodonTips

#MastodonTips #GettingStarted When you’re new to Mastodon, we’d suggest the first step is to follow 50 account. It’s not a final destination, but a place to start so you’ll have stuff on your feed. Made it to 50? Good job! Follow more.. 2nd tip today is to start to find and follow hashtags for topics you care about. This helps diversify your feed. The task here is: Find and follow a few hashtags. Once you find a busy one; follow a bunch of folks that pop up. Follow 10 ppl this way!

#MastodonTips

Increase the spread of your posts with.. #HashTags

Big tech now ignores the humble HashTag through #algorithm control. On here you’re IN CONTROL

Couple tips:

1. For accessibility capitalise the first letter of each word (TitleCase). Then screen readers can read each word. Do this even if the suggested tag that pops up is all lower case.

2. Anyone can follow a tag and that’ll help those people find your post. As your post will show in their feed. Follow some HashTags yourself!