A lot of the accounts you follow and interact with on here are not Mastodon accounts!
For example, @theatticdwellers is a PeerTube account, @Iancylkowski is a Pixelfed account, @rstv is an OwnCast account.
There are dozens of different server types on here, not just Mastodon servers. When you talk about this place, it's not enough to call it "Mastodon", because it's more than just that.
That's why people call this place "The Fediverse", because that name covers all server types. 
@feditips @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv so how does it work for something like publishing stories? If you used a fedi like https://writefreely.org
Could people from mastodon fallow you and get updates when you post?
@Saintajax33 @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv
You can follow Write Freely accounts, and when a new post is added it will appear in your Home timeline. For example @writefreely is the Write Freely project's own blog and is a Write Freely account.
A more flexible and powerful option is to use a WordPress blog. There is an official plugin made by @pfefferle and WordPress that allows independently hosted WordPress blogs to be followed from the Fediverse:
https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/
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