Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover

Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by jeena on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:18AM (#33436195)

I'm also confused about your description. I host my own single user mastodon instance and have no problems to follow anyone, just put their username into the searchbar and click follow.

This way I can follow anything on the fediverse, not only Mastodon accounts but PeerTube, Friendica, PixelFed, FunkWhale, etc. all from my Mastodon account.

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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by VectorLock on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:09AM (#33437090)

If you don't own the instance can you follow things on instances you're not federated with?

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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by stewbrew on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:06PM (#33440335)

Yes you can but that's not how hardcore mastodon users describe things. Did you ever wonder what the local feed is about?

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