oh my god I just discovered that sometimes the "Follow" button doesn't work on Mastodon because I got to the profile through another instance that I'm not on or some dumb shit I know it's just a matter of copy-pasting to another window but this shit suuuuuckkks
@SchneidRemarks I’m using an app (called Toot!) which at least knows how to do the right thing when that happens, offering to let me follow as my own account
@SchneidRemarks you should have “remote follow” as an option for accounts not on your instance I guess unless you’re using an app that doesn’t support it?

@forpush I'm just using basic web browser and I get this message:

Is there some setting I need to turn on?

@SchneidRemarks not sure actually, might be specific to certain instances? I was seeing it on a lot of people before but now when I'm looking for it it's not there