Sarah BoonNov 19, 2022

So I signed up to Mastodon a few months ago and I have only started to use it more recently, but I still don’t understand how it works. Or the server system on here.

Apparently I must have joined a server when I set up my account? I don’t remember joining a specific one (or even know how you join one 🤣)

If somebody could explain this to me in everyday English that would be great.

Show threadBrian KungNov 19, 2022
@Saraheboon yeah so it’s kind of like how you can have an email address at a particular provider but you can email everyone regardless of who they sign up with. You do need to register at one server, but then you can subscribe to anyone on almost any other mastodon server.
Show threadBrian Kung
@Saraheboon reasons to switch servers might be that they don’t moderate the way you like or performance is slow, or they have blocked other mastodon servers that you want to interact with.
Nov 19, 2022 at 8:35pmWeb