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   Kit Pickles (kitpickles@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:11 JST Kit Pickles

   I understand the theory but not the practice of how mastodon works. I have several accounts on several servers. I think that's doing it wrong, but I'm not sure. This is going to be a fun ride...

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:04 JST pawlicker

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     @a7 @kitpickles One of the most important things to note on the fediverse is to always click on view external link on posts, especially as your instance might be/likely can be censoring others due to blocklists the admin put on (that are out of your control completely unless you use another instance). Or if you have a smaller/single user instance, you will find it very hard to keep up with threads/see nice posts as your instance is unaware of them
     
     Case in point if you click A7's post and view the external link you'll see replies you didn't know about.
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     a7 (a7@miss.mouse.services)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:06 JST a7

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     @kitpickles@universeodon.com the fediverse is the proper name for the network, mastodon is a piece of software that is part of the fediverse, the protocol itself is ostatus or activity pub and some other ones.
     
     The major available server software is pleroma, misskey, mastodon, akkoma
     
     They all send messages to each other, most have 3 timelines available for users “local/public” or something of the such which is just your server, “global/whole known network” or some other names which is messages from all servers your server sees, then your own timeline which is like people you follow, they can be on your server or other people’s servers

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     Kit Pickles (kitpickles@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:08 JST Kit Pickles

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     • a7

     @a7 Ok, so that truly blew my mind. I had no idea that this also speaks to other networks (is that the right word?) in the fediverse. I have a lot to learn and this is going to be a lot of fun. Thanks so much for the info!

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     a7 (a7@miss.mouse.services)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:09 JST a7

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     @kitpickles@universeodon.com ya, there should be like a federated time line or whole known network or something, I dont use mastodon so dont really know the interface, I am on a different fediverse software called misskey.

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     a7 (a7@miss.mouse.services)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:10 JST a7

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     @kitpickles@universeodon.com its good to have backups, but those accounts are connected in no way. You can export and import follows for your backup and secondary accounts.

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     Kit Pickles (kitpickles@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:10 JST Kit Pickles

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     • a7

     @a7 Oh, interesting. Thank you for that. So the server I'm currently on, for instance, could be something very niche, but still have access to the Mastodon network as a whole through the Federated feed?

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:31:31 JST pawlicker

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     • pawlicker
     @a7 @kitpickles Or heck, if you click on view external link for my post you'll see posts you had no idea about too :)
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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 13:32:30 JST pawlicker

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     • pawlicker
     @a7 @kitpickles So on Mastodon, to view external links you click the date/time stamp of the post. Try it now. You will then be teleported to the remote instance to see users and replies you're missing.