Today I was trying to follow someone after seeing on Twitter that they had created a Mastodon account. I can't seem to make it work though. When I copy the address for their account into the search bar (which I believe Mastodon instructs you to do), I get this message. Can anyone see what I might be doing wrong?
@watchitplayed your mastodon instance has disabled it for some reason apparently
@athos Sorry for my ignorance, so that means I can't follow anyone outside of this instance?
@watchitplayed i think you can but they would need to appear on your timeline somehow? i would ask your instance admin why they disabled that feature