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saw a boosted post in my timeline from another GNU Social implementation unrelated to Mastodon. this is exciting

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You can reply/boost/favourite toots from other Mastodon/GNU social instances by pasting the toot's URL into Mastodon's search box.

[as noted by @wxcafe on github] un.lobi.to/media/jJO24uunMhr9W

sweet, federation means I can stay logged in as myself and as a bot in the same browser session

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✨ It's live! My start to finish guide for getting your own #mastodon instance up and running with Docker on Ubuntu 16.04: github.com/ummjackson/mastodon

I've tested this on both Vultr and DigitalOcean and the instructions should be pretty much copy/paste for everyone. Hope this helps some people! 😀

Good luck and feedback appreciated!! (cc @Gargron / @TonyNof / @david / @vielmetti / @lmorchard )

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twitter, where toots are called "tweets" (ugh) will never take off because only one person can have each username

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good morning mastodon! in honor of @poem_exe (my fav bot) joining the fediverse, here's my favorite non-programmatically-generated three line poem: