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Your blog is on Mastodon nowOfficial postWritten by noted.do itself — a notice, a rule change or an announcement.
tags: fediverse, how-to
desc: Every blog here is also a Mastodon account. Search for it, press follow, and new posts arrive in the timeline.
publish_at: 2026-11-05 09:00
Your blog is on Mastodon now
Here's something a lot of people don't know a blog can do: be followed, the way an account is followed.
Every blog on noted.do is also a fediverse account. Yours is @yourname@noted.do, and you'll see it written out in your blog's header. Anyone on Mastodon, or on anything else that speaks the same language, can put that into their search box, press follow, and from then on your new posts arrive in their timeline, as full articles rather than links. They read you where they already are. You didn't have to join anything.
It goes the other way too. When someone replies to a post from Mastodon, their reply shows up here as a comment, following whatever you've set for comments on your blog. A like over there counts as a reaction over here. If you edit a post, the edit goes out. If you unpublish one, it's withdrawn. The blog and the account stay the same thing.
One thing worth knowing, because it catches everyone: followers only receive posts published after they follow. Someone who follows you today sees your next post, not your last fifty. So an empty-looking timeline on the first day is normal. The archive is still here on the blog for anyone who wants it.
The easiest way to see it work is to follow yourself. Search for your handle from your own Mastodon account, follow, then publish something. Watch it land. After that you'll believe it.
It's on for every blog unless you turn it off, which you can do from your account page if you'd rather your writing stayed on the web and off the timelines. Either is fine. The point was to give you the choice.
If you have somewhere you mention your blog, a bio, a footer, a sign-off, put the handle next to the address. Some people follow. Some people subscribe. Now you have both.