korvys @korvys@octodon.social
Fake Geek Guy.
LoadingReadyRunner.
Kiwi in Aus.
[He/Him]
Guess I'll put some of my #leatherwork stuff up here, since people are sharing what they're into.
https://octodon.social/media/7XPoXPUKupSqAbPeTpc https://octodon.social/media/nEa_OhYUNC6AgqHUEP0 https://octodon.social/media/T0JGK1HFpMPr-78HRNw https://octodon.social/media/o78f9MzQmvxo_eCtIWc
another srs post here, wont be long:
we are happy there are more folks here but FYI newbies, Mastodon's community was founded by gays, trans folx, POC, furries. Not only do we take no BS from Nazis, we won't have you ruining this place for us.
YOU ADJUST TO US. Mic drop 🎤
kɜ:ʳ 
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!
Ok, so I've moved the people I follow to this account as well. I should probably unfollow them on the old account, I'm not following people twice.
Boosted toots (that will never not be funny) from other instances don't show up in local, right?
So an instance can choose not to federate from a particular instance? That's pretty cool.
THe instance just provides the account.
This does mean if the instance shuts down, you lose your account, but it looks like they're working on ways to move your followers to a new account on a new instance.
Oh, ok, I get it. I can set up an account on this instance, but follow people on other instances, and they show up in the "Home" timeline.
Which means instance don't really matter (if you don't mind the @name@instance format). They more like email providers.
