Mastodawn

ambercadabra 💙🦦Nov 16, 2022

Another quick helper for people coming from the #TwitterMigration (slightly overly simplified).

Feeds:

Home = people you specifically follow, no matter what instance they "live" on

Local = the feed for the people across the same instance you're on, whether or not you follow them

Federated = public posts from people "known" to your instance, ie people on the same instance as you OR people followed by people on your instance, like a 2nd degree connection (it is NOT "every user on Mastodon).

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ambercadabra 💙🦦Nov 16, 2022

It helps to think of Mastodon as the city, instances as neighborhoods, and the connections as the streets that link people and places.

So there are a bunch of ways to get to one destination and for people from different neighborhoods to find and make their way to each other.

So you can hang out hyperlocal (Home), on your block (Local), or wander around the city (Federated). :)

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Kevin Troy Darling

@ambercadabra I love being able to duck into a coffee shop or quiet bar-level conversation and leave the Times Square-level discourse for when I have steeled myself.