Notices by Yavuz Selim (yavuz@geveze.social)

@feditips

> "However, the easiest method for me is to just go to the explore/local/federated pages of other instances directly."

What I meant with this is discovering new users and content.

I have a single user instance, which means that I need to interact with others before my instance gets some content from other instances. Hard to find new content without interaction, basically.

But the downside of directly browsing an instance is that the reply and follow buttons don't work.

@feditips

Ah, yes, the workaround. Yes, you are right, I made that discovery a few days ago.

Indeed, when I browse Mastodon through my own instance and happen to find your post, I can indeed reply.

However, the easiest method for me is to just go to the explore/local/federated pages of other instances directly. I can find much more doing it that way, and that's also how I found your original post.

I just opened the explore page of a large instance, and just randomly saw your post.

@feditips

I can reply to you without issues when I use an app. However, when I use a browser, I need to copy/paste the URL of the post to the search field of my Mastodon instance (because we are on different instances).

See attached screenshot for the screen that I get when I try to reply to you via the browser. Same story for when I click on 'follow'.

Thanks for mentioning FediAct, will check that out.

@feditips

The web version and the many apps made for Mastodon are somewhat frustrating to use.

The web version always shows the full profile with all the posts, but it's not easy to reply to posts or follow users that are on another instance.

In the apps, it's the other way around. Profiles and posts are not fully loaded, but it's easier to reply and follow.

I've discovered the browser extension Graze (https://social.jaredzimmerman.com/@jaredzimmerman/109582075681315233) that at least makes following, boosting and favoriting easier.