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INTRO TO FEDERATION:
1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.
2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.
3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.
4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!
@chr that is very helpful.
I signed up at some other instances to find interesting people and follow them with my main account:
-sign up at remote handle
-copy remote user's handle
-sign off from remote instance
-go to user's public URL
-click remote follow
-sign in with main account
Do you know a better way than that? I mean other than following reposted remote users on my main instance?
@koos however you can speed it up slightly by just copying their url into the search bar on your main instance account, e.g. https://cybre.space/@chr should bring up my account on any mastodon instance
@chr cool will try. Didn't work just now, but there seems to be a more general issue with remotes on Octodon
@koos unfortunately I haven't found a better way yet. I've heard some instances have follow-bots which add users from other servers so that there's more variety, but haven't seen any of these in action yet.