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Hey 3D printing people!

Did you know there is a Fediverse alternative to Printables, Makerworld and Thingiverse?

It's called Manyfold, you can find out more on its website:

➡️ https://manyfold.app

You can follow the official account at:

➡️ @manyfold

There's an official demo at https://try.manyfold.app and a public server to join at https://3dprint.social

#Fediverse #3DPrinting #3DPrinters #3DPrints #Printables #Makerworld #Thingiverse #Alternatives

How to make your hashtags appear neatly at the bottom of your posts:

1. Write the tags on a single line at the end of the post, with nothing else after them
2. Include a blank line above the hashtag line
3. You can also include tags in the body of the post and they will work, but they won't appear at the end
4. Not every app or interface shows the tags neatly like this, but those that can will do so

See the attached image for an example of tags with this kind of neat formatting.

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@teledyn

In transfers you mean?

Media is attached to posts, so it stays in the same place as the posts do. If you transfer your account, your old media will stay on the old posts on the old server.

As long as you don't delete the old account, the old posts aren't orphaned or deleted. They remain as before, but clicking the author's link will redirect them to your new account.

If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.

Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.

Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.

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Have you ever seen a post or thread that you want to look at again after a certain amount of time?

There is a Fediverse reminder bot which you can use to remind you about a particular thread after a specified time period (it can be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years later).

To use the bot, reply to the post or thread you want reminding about, mentioning the bot's account with the amount of time you want. More info and instructions in the guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm

This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.

If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

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If you're looking for interesting accounts to follow on here, there are lots of ways you can discover them:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

(I've tried to list every method, let me know in the replies if I've missed something!)

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By default, Mastodon accounts automatically accept new followers.

However, if you would like to screen who follows you, you can switch your account over to manual confirmation. On the manual setting, anyone who tries to follow you will appear as a follow request which you can confirm or reject.

More info on how to do this (and lots of questions answered about this) in the guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/restricting-who-can-follow-you-in-mastodon

On some interfaces you may see a 🔒 icon next to accounts with manual confirmation.

If you're looking for a nice well-run Fediverse server to move to, you might want to check out my other website:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

I also run an account that features good individual servers every day:

➡️ @FediGarden

All of the servers listed comply with specific standards of responsible moderation and technical reliability (more info at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site).

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