Here's my secret method:
Go to the search icon at the bottom.
Now you have choices of: posts, hashtags, news, local, and for you.
Click on local.
My local is packed out with people speaking in nine different languages. It doesn't seem to be very local at all, and I am instantly reminded that there are Mastodonians from all over the world.
In among the languages I don't speak, there's an eclectic selection of English speakers.
I don't do it too often, but I enjoy it there.
@puniko Actually, that should be local.
My mute is local. If I am following you and you switch instances, your instance - the remote instance, to me - sends a message to all of your followers when you switch instances, which is how we keep following you at the next instance, no?
In which case, part of what I suggest would be that *locally* would be my local instance checks to see if, when I get a notification to follow puniko@X because I followed puniko@Y, puniko@X was muted so I can transfer that too.
(I would never mute puniko :)
No information leakage.
But maybe I misunderstand how this whole business works with notifying followers' instances automatically when you switch instances.
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