Molly jong-fastI’m having a lot of anxiety that I’m on the wrong server But Can’t figure out how to change
Nathan 🏳️🌈@mollyjongfast There's no wrong server. You have access to the same posts as anyone on any other server. What's specific to Mastodon.lol is we block Nazi/racist/transphobic servers so you don't see those users and they can't interact with you. That's it.
Jeff Lindborg@nathan @mollyjongfast rookie question here, so what's the process (or is there one?) to stand your own server up and then join the federation? Can just anyone do that? So it sounds like folks are just standing nodes up and attracting 4chan type folks to it and joining the federation. Interesting. I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to the non-centralized model.
@jlindborg @mollyjongfast Yep, anyone can do it with some technical knowledge. There's a lot of "free speech" servers which are largely unmoderated but it's easy enough to yeet them into the sun.
@nathan @mollyjongfast Working on jumping off the bird site – mostly getting it all figured out, but I have to say the most annoying bit is that you can’t find users by their handle across federated systems. In trying to find folks that I used to follow on Twitter I need to know what Mastodon instance they’re on which is maddening. Been building my follow list slowly with numerous (slow) searches across the most popular servers. This seems like a solvable problem to me…