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Michael Greshko ✅ @michaelgreshko@octodon.social

Visited the RSS memorial today. After all these years, it's still amazing to see the lightning hit it—every hour, on the hour—and then watch as the sparks ripple out to the aggregator towers at all the cemeteries that are still subscribed.

@Steiner Amaroq for Mastodon looks like the best bet right now

The federated nature of Mastodon means it a giant different moderation strategies interacting with the same wider federation. Gonna be hella interesting seeing how it plays out.

Question about federation: If I follow someone on an instance my instance is not federated with, will I still see their toots, or does the federation blocklist overrule my follows?

It appears I made a crucial Mastodon mistake: I set up two identical accounts on two different instances, failing to account for the whole federated nature of the network. Rookie move...

@johann @aram Welcome! I think most of us are still trying to make sense of this.

Hello, octodon.social! I'm a National Geographic science journalist. Excited to try this out—though I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around the federated timeline. Recommendations for instances?
I'm on hostux.social and octodon.social.