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Mushimu is a social network built around communities and conversations. Discover shared interests, publish posts, reply to other people and follow the voices you want to hear from. You can explore public content before creating an account.

Explore helps you discover interests. For You combines relevant activity and discovery; Following focuses on people and communities you follow. Latest shows recent posts, while Trending highlights conversations gaining momentum. Use search to find a topic.

Communities are spaces dedicated to an interest or subject. Open Communities, choose a space, read its description and rules, and select Join. You can leave from the same community page. Following a person and joining a community are separate choices.

Open the community creation page to check whether your account is eligible. Access depends on your account history and reputation. Choose a clear topic, an informative description and rules that help members participate.

Choose the right community for your post, give it a clear title and add useful context. Reply to continue a conversation and vote to express your assessment of a contribution. Read the community rules before publishing and avoid spam or repeated posts.

Mushitags are topic labels that start with ~. A video posted in funny with ~india ~train stays in funny and can also be found by either label. Mushitags connect posts without creating a separate official community, owner or membership.

Write them in the body of your post, such as ~india ~train. You can use up to five different mushitags. Names contain 2–40 letters, numbers or underscores, without spaces. The editor suggests existing names, but you can also use a new one. Uppercase and lowercase share the same tag; accents are preserved. Repeated tags count once. Tags in titles, comments, URLs and code do not create labels.

Click a label or search for ~india. Searching ~india ~train finds posts containing both tags. You can add ordinary words to narrow the results and filter by a community, such as funny, or browse all communities.

The mushitag page shows the most used labels today, this month or this year, globally or within a community. Calendar periods use UTC. Each eligible public post counts once per tag, and participants are counted once per tag across the whole period. Editing an old post changes its original publication period. Deleting or moderating content can change the counts.

Discovery includes public posts that you are allowed to see under your age and content preferences. Members-only posts, removed content, suspended authors and accounts you have blocked or that have blocked you are excluded. Administrators can also hide a tag from suggestions and rankings. Text published before mushitags were introduced is indexed when the post is edited.

Muxi is your reputation on Mushimu. It reflects the recognition your contributions receive from the community. Share useful posts, write thoughtful replies, help others and participate respectfully over time. Followers and Muxi describe different things.

Your reputation can change as contributions and their recognition are updated or moderation decisions are applied. A vote does not promise a fixed increase or an immediate update. Focus on useful participation; exchanging votes, spam and attempts to manipulate reputation are not a way to build trust.

Use the report action on a post or reply that may break the rules. You can hide posts and block accounts using the available menus. Manage blocked accounts and content visibility in Settings. Adult content is hidden by default and requires opting in.

Change your password in Settings. If you cannot sign in, use password recovery with your verified email address.