For those who dont know, the federated timeline displays all the activity from all the people on other instances who are followed by people on your instance.
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It is therefore very good practice to follow as many interesting people from other instances as possible. We are the ropes binding this distributed system together.
@NthTensor How to discover folks on other instances that aren't already followed by folks on your instance? Boosts from people who you :sparkle:do:sparkle: follow?
@linguangst @NthTensor Following people that show up in the federated timeline won't diversify the federated timeline, though. Right?
I've been seeing who is cool that I follow on other instances and seeing who they're interacting with in their own local by looking at their profile an following people. I've consequently added a bunch of folks from witches.town, so...
@benhamill @NthTensor it will diversify the federated timelines of instances who follow you :]
and yes, witches.town remains the best. :sparkles:
@linguangst @NthTensor Wait. If I follow @someonecool@random.instance and then you follow me, someone cool's toots will show up on the federated timeline of witches.town?
In other news: What has this jargon done to English? 😝
@benhamill @NthTensor ugh let me think through this... *thinks for a second, gives up, calls @Gargron*
(i think i had it wrong—but it will definitely diversify the federated timeline of YOUR instance, and therefore yours)
@linguangst @NthTensor @gargron Only if I found them somewhere other than the federated feed, right? This makes a good case for prolific boosting, though. Because that :sparkles:will:sparkles: put their toot in the federated feeds of instances where someone follows me. I assume.
@benhamill @NthTensor yes, and perusing the federated timeline