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I don't even know what I'm doing here. What's the difference between a "follow" and a "remote follow"? And why do pages keep making Star Trek references?
@CobaltVelvet Thanks for the clarification. I'm starting to get the gist of it.
@AlisonHudson I think a "follow" is someone from your local timeline. "Remote follow" would be someone from another timeline - a "federated timeline".
And I think the Star Trek references are because of the use of the word " federated" like the Federation from Star Trek.
Hi! I'm new here too.
@shuntley Thanks for the explanation. I guess I'm not used to this sort of decentralized setup yet.
(And yeah, Star Trek thing was a bad attempt at humor :D )
@AlisonHudson haha, should have caught it!
@AlisonHudson there are many instances, you can follow people on the same or follow people on another one (remote follow) that will make instances communicate (a bit like when someone at gmail sends something to yahoo)