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Omicron

Using Omicron

Reading and following

The feed tabs, following local and remote writers, tags, search, and notifications.

The feed

Three tabs:

Tab Shows
For you Posts from accounts and tags you follow
Local Everything published on this instance
Global Local posts plus what has arrived from the wider fediverse

Pick your default tab in Settings → Reading. There is no engagement-ranked algorithm — ordering is chronological, and “For you” is simply the union of what you chose to follow.

Language filtering

Also in Settings → Reading: choose languages to hide, or to show only. Posts carry the language their author selected in the composer.

Following

  • Local writers — follow from their profile.
  • Remote actors — paste a handle like @someone@mastodon.social into search, or open their profile through a federated post, then follow.

Following a remote actor sends a Follow activity; their server decides whether to accept it. If their account requires approval, the follow stays pending until they act.

Tags

Tags are the discovery mechanism beyond your follow graph.

  • Browse a tag at /tags/<tag>.
  • Follow a tag and its posts appear in your For you feed.
  • Manage the whole set in Settings → Followed tags.

Search covers posts, local accounts, and tags. Pasting a full remote handle (@user@domain) resolves that actor over WebFinger and shows their profile, even if your instance has never seen them before.

Notifications

/notifications collects likes, comments, new followers, and follow requests — local and federated in one list. There is an unread count in the header, and you can mark items or the whole list as read.

Reading lists

Save posts to read later or organise them into named lists. See Lists and read later.

RSS

Every author has a feed:

https://your-domain/@handle/feed.xml

Useful if you would rather read in an RSS client than in the web app. Feeds are never challenged by the AI-scraper shield.

Muting and blocking

  • Mute hides someone’s content from you; they are not told.
  • Block additionally severs the follow relationship in both directions.

Both work on local and remote accounts, and are managed in Settings → Muted and blocked. Instance-wide blocking of an entire domain is an admin action — see Moderation tools.

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