Admin¶

The Admin page is where Mastodon is My Blog (MIMB) becomes manageable instead of magical.

If People and Content are for reading, Admin is for control.

Connection status¶

If your account is not connected yet, Admin is where you finish the OAuth login flow.

Force Refresh Cache updates the local view of:

Use this when the app feels out of date.

Initialize/Catch Up Own Account goes deeper into your own posting history so your archive is more complete.

This is especially important if you want a stronger local record of your posts or plan to build the static blog export.

Catch-up is for broader backfilling.

This is the faster, more aggressive pass.

This is the slower, gentler pass for deeper history.

Stops the running catch-up job.

The queue preview shows which accounts are likely to be processed first.

This section lets you build topic collections.

Create a named topic set.

Each term is either:

Imports hashtags you already follow on Mastodon as read-only groups.

You can edit or remove your own bundles. Read-only server-follow groups cannot be deleted here.

If something in MIMB looks missing, stale, or oddly narrow, Admin is usually the first place to check.