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
- In the left menu, click Connected Accounts.
- Under Add a channel, find Mastodon and click Connect.
- In Your server, type the server domain only, for example
mastodon.social. Do not addhttps://or a port. - Click Continue.
- Your own server opens. Sign in if needed and approve the connection.
- 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. |