Editor’s Note – Adding this resource – How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon. Increasingly, more and more people have joined Mastodon in recent years. The advantages provided by a decentralized network and using open-source software maintained by a nonprofit organization are undeniable. Mastodon offers much more robust protections for your privacy than commercial social media platforms do. This tutorial will show you how to make the most of it. This tutorial is the second of a series of two articles on Mastodon. If you would like to read a general overview about privacy and security on Mastodon, start with reading the first article of this series. This second article will guide you on how to improve your Mastodon account’s security, and how to adjust the different privacy features to your preferences. This isn’t an onboarding guide to start using Mastodon, but if that’s what you seek, you can first take a look at this short guide from Doc Pop. Additionally, while self-hosting a Mastodon account offers the most freedom and control over your data, it also requires much more expertise and resources, which isn’t realistically accessible to everyone. For this reason, this tutorial will focus on the experience from the user side, and not from the administrator side….
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