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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 06:11:53 JST FediTips has moved!

   If you know the address of an account on the Fediverse, you can make it appear within your own server so you can follow and interact with it:

   1. Copy and paste the address into the search box on your server
   2. A link to the account's profile will appear, click on it to interact

   This works with all kinds of Fediverse addresses including Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, BookWyrm, Friendica, OwnCast etc.

   This also works with a profile page's web address.

   Find out more at https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 06:18:41 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Feoh

     @feoh

     It is about the same energy required as email addresses or web addresses or telephone numbers, which everyone used to cope with fine?

     I'm mainly trying to get people aware that this is an option, because some people think they have to do interactions via other servers' websites.

     Easiest of all is if an account is already mentioned within your server in boosts or searches or trends, but if it isn't then this is another way to make it appear on your own server.

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     Feoh (feoh@oldbytes.space)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 06:18:42 JST Feoh

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     @feditips This is one of the biggest sticking points for new folks to fedi. While many of us who 'live' here see this as a vast improvement over how things used to be, they're used to the algorithmic monoculture so this feels hopelessly difficult to them, not in terms of mechanics but in. terms of activation energy, and I have no concept of how we'd even fix that.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 10:02:59 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Feoh
     • Drew

     @drawnonglass @feoh

     Of course ? But if the account you want to follow isn't visible on your server for whatever reason, you can use this method to make it visible.

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     Drew (drawnonglass@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 10:03:01 JST Drew

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     • Feoh

     @feditips @feoh
     Yes, to your comparisons above, but all of those are still harder than seeing the name of someone you want to follow, clicking on said name, and clicking "Follow"