Post Buttons #
At the bottom of every post, is a row of buttons for interacting with the post: reply, favorite, boost, favorite+boost (“bloost”), and bookmark.
To encourage the use of alt text, the favorite and boost buttons are hidden for posts with attachments that are missing alt text.
You can still favorite and boost the post via the context menu.
Reply Menu #
Tapping on the reply button brings up a menu with options to reply to the post, post to the author not as a reply, view the context of the post (the chain of preceding and subsequent replies), and the thread of the of the post (the sequence of replies to self by the post author).
Conversation #
Thread #
Formats #
Posts are delivered as HTML and it’s up to the instance you’re publishing on to format your content. Mastodon just expects to format plain text entry into HTML but Fedicat will attempt to recognize markup embedded within the HTML content.
Markdown #
LaTeX #
Translating #
Instance Translation #
Long-press on a post to bring up its context menu. Post translation is available on Mastodon instances that are configured to support it (and it requires that the post has the correct source language specified). Alternatively, translation via the translator built into iOS is always available but supports a more limited set of languages.
Apple Translation #
Alternatively, translation via the translator built into iOS is always available but supports a more limited set of languages.
