Mastodon
  • What is Mastodon?
  • Using Mastodon
    • Signing up for an account
    • Setting up your profile
    • Posting to your profile
    • Using the network features
    • Dealing with unwanted content
    • Promoting yourself and others
    • Set your preferences
    • More settings
    • Using Mastodon externally
    • Moving or leaving accounts
    • Running your own server
  • Running Mastodon
    • Preparing your machine
    • Installing from source
    • Configuring your environment
    • Configuring full-text search
    • Installing optional features
      • Object storage
      • Onion services
      • Captcha
      • Single Sign On
    • Setting up your new instance
    • Using the admin CLI
    • Upgrading to a new release
    • Backing up your server
    • Migrating to a new machine
    • Scaling up your server
    • Moderation actions
    • Troubleshooting errors
      • Database index corruption
    • Roles
  • Developing Mastodon apps
    • Getting started with the API
    • Playing with public data
    • Obtaining client app access
    • Logging in with an account
    • Libraries and implementations
  • Contributing to Mastodon
    • Technical overview
    • Setting up a dev environment
    • Code structure
    • Routes
    • Bug bounties and responsible disclosure
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      • tags
    • profile
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    • proofs
    • oembed
  • API Entities
    • Account
    • AccountWarning
    • Admin::Account
    • Admin::CanonicalEmailBlock
    • Admin::Cohort
    • Admin::Dimension
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    • FilterStatus
    • IdentityProof
    • Instance
    • List
    • Marker
    • MediaAttachment
    • Notification
    • NotificationPolicy
    • NotificationRequest
    • Poll
    • Preferences
    • PreviewCard
    • PreviewCardAuthor
    • PrivacyPolicy
    • Quote
    • Reaction
    • Relationship
    • RelationshipSeveranceEvent
    • Report
    • Role
    • Rule
    • ScheduledStatus
    • Search
    • ShallowQuote
    • Status
    • StatusEdit
    • StatusSource
    • Suggestion
    • Tag
    • TermsOfService
    • Token
    • Translation
    • V1::Filter
    • V1::Instance
    • V1::NotificationPolicy
    • WebPushSubscription

Promoting yourself and others

Give visibility to hashtags, profiles, and posts.

    • Featured links on your profile
      • Featured hashtags
    • Pinned posts
    • Profile directory

Featured links on your profile

Featured hashtags

A list of featured hashtags showing last usage date and total usage

A list of featured hashtags showing last usage date and total usage

You can choose to feature certain hashtags that you use often. Go to Preferences > Edit profile > Featured hashtags to manage which hashtags you are currently featuring. Once featured, a link to the hashtag will be shown on your profile, with the date of the last time it was used in a status, as well as the total number of statuses in which it was used.

Pinned posts

An example of a user’s pinned post

An example of a user’s pinned post

You can choose to feature up to 5 of your own public posts at the top of your profile. Go to the status dropdown menu and click “Pin on profile”. When you pin a post, it will appear at the top of your “posts” tab, before all other chronological status updates.

Profile directory

List of users in the profile directory

List of users in the profile directory

The profile directory shows all accounts that have opted into being shown in the directory, and can be used to quickly find profiles that you may be interested in following.

The profile directory can be sorted either by recent activity (the most recently published status), or by new arrivals (the most recently created accounts). The directory can also be filtered to show only local accounts, or to show all known accounts that your website is aware of.

Profiles appear as cards that include a user’s display name, address, account bio, and some brief stats such as how many posts they’ve published, how many followers they have, and the time of their last published status.

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