Notices by Higasa Mitsue (日傘みつえ) (mitsue@vt.social)

This one feels like a really obvious thing missing from BirdSite, but is a combination of two features:
1. You can "lock" your account to put follow requests in a review queue.
2. You can mark a post as Public, Unlisted, Followers Only, or Mentioned Only.
As a consequence, you have an option between "fully open" and "fully closed". A locked account can still make Public posts, so you're not damning yourself to eternal solitude just to get some privacy.

You can move between different servers (instances)!

If you no longer think your home instance is the best place for you - maybe the admin is too busy to get rid of spammers or other uncomfy people - moving across instances is natively supported, and will carry most of your followers with you (minus ones that opt out of auto-following migrated accounts).

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

When adding an image, you can move the "focal point".
On most Social Media, this is done automatically by Algorithms™, here you can manually control what the crop should look like.

Some tips for new users!

Under App Settings you can enable an estimated reply counter.
(it's an estimate because some replies might be out of your instance!)

@LunaFoxgirlVT The one hurdle that still requires reading of course is a link back to vt.social to prove that it’s them, but you can also imply that with a checkbox saying “I’ve made sure to verify my registration to vt.social with a link on my portfolio/YT/Twitch”

@LunaFoxgirlVT The “Why do you want to join” field is still geared towards developers, since it mentions GitHub and personal blogs. Even replacing it with a quick “I am an (artist/rigger/vtuber)” drop-down/radio button should yield an immediate improvement! For artists/riggers, proceed to ask for a link to their portfolio, and for vtubers, a link to their past streams.

@LunaFoxgirlVT How customizable is the registration page? Instead of relying on people reading, it would be easier to imply requirements built into the form.

@koda Wow! Where does that install into, and how can other programs find it? I haven't looked into WINE yet, does it have a virtual Windows file structure?