telemachusSo, I'm slightly (more than slightly?) confused.
If I'm here and I'm on mastodon.social, who sees what? Can I merge the streams?
mykola 🙃🌎🤘@telemachus no! They're separate identities. You exist within the context of an instance. Your followers don't transfer etc.
So, pick a server and make it 'home', your canonical self. From that context, you can still follow people on any other server by appending their server. @[email protected] and @[email protected] are different.
If you are on a.com, you can just refer to @username to get @[email protected].
Make sense?
@telemachus more advanced implications at the instance level. Here on a.weirder.earth there's a 'local stream' which is all public posts by anyone native to this instance.
'Federated stream', though, is all public posts by anyone on any instance anywhere as long as at least one person from this instance follows them.
So there's a concept of a community, but it's interconnected too.