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Summary

Customize how you want your profile and your posts to be found. A variety of features in Mastodon can help you reach a wider audience when enabled. Take a moment to review these settings to make sure they fit your use case.

REACH

Control whether you want to be discovered and followed by new people. Do you want your posts to appear on the Explore screen? Do you want other people to see you in their follow recommendations? Do you want to accept all new followers automatically, or have granular control over each one?

[ ] Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms (Recommended)

  Your public posts and profile may be featured or recommended in various areas of Mastodon and your profile may be suggested to other users.

[ ] Automatically accept new followers

  People will be able to follow you without requesting approval. Uncheck if you want to review follow requests and chose whether to accept or reject new followers.

SEARCH

Control how you want to be found. Do you want people to find you by what you've publicly posted about? Do you want people outside Mastodon to find your profile when searching the web? Please mind that total exclusion from all search engines cannot be guaranteed for public information.

[ ] Include public posts in search results

  Your public posts may appear in search results on Mastodon. People who have interacted with your posts may be able to search them regardless.

[ ] Include profile page in search engines

  Your profile page may appear in search results on Google, Bing, and others.