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Connect Mastodon

Mastodon has many servers. You tell Schedule & Chill which server your account lives on, then approve the connection on that server.

Find your server

Your server is the part after the second @ in your handle. If you are @[email protected], your server is fosstodon.org.

Connect your account

  1. In the left menu, click Connected Accounts.
  2. Under Add a channel, find Mastodon and click Connect.
  3. In Your server, type the server domain only, for example mastodon.social. Do not add https:// or a port.
  4. Click Continue.
  5. Your own server opens. Sign in if needed and approve the connection.
  6. You come back and see Mastodon account connected successfully.

Self-hosted servers work too. Mastodon connections do not expire. They only stop working if you remove Schedule & Chill from your server's settings.

What a Mastodon post can include

  • Your server decides the text limit. Many servers allow 500 characters and some allow more. We read your server's real limit when you connect.
  • Each link counts as a fixed number of characters, set by your server (usually 23).
  • Up to 4 images, or 1 video. Not both in the same post.
  • A first comment is supported. It is posted as a reply to your post.

Mastodon reports likes, replies and boosts in Analytics. It does not report views.

If something goes wrong

You see What to do
That does not look like a server address. Enter your instance domain, for example mastodon.social Type only the domain, like mastodon.social.
Only https servers are supported. Your server must use https.
Enter the domain only, without a port. Remove the :1234 part.
Could not find a server at … Check the spelling of the domain.
… did not respond like a Mastodon server. Check the domain and try again. The address is not a Mastodon server, or the server is down.
Failed to connect account: Could not read your Mastodon profile. Try again. If it keeps failing, your server may block new apps.
Mastodon took too long to process the attachment. Your server was slow with the image or video. Retry the post.