Qina Liu✅Here's what I learned by spending a weekend on #Mastodon and my attempt to explain @acw's 🍍. Please correct me if I'm wrong about anything and boost for any #newbie making #introduction #introductions. Also thanks to @Katharsisdrill @dredmorbius @nolan @markov & many more for #MastodonTips: https://medium.com/@qinaliu/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b
Jeremy@qinaliu Just read your article. It was good. I cant believe you dont have any followers yet? Or is that just how it shows up on my instance?
@stochastix Hi Jeremy, I think the public follower count you're seeing might be how many people in your instance follow me. This might show you different numbers: https://mastodon.social/@qinaliu
@stochastix I also attempt to explain this here: https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b
@qinaliu Is it common for people to sign up on multiple instances in order to get a feel for the different communities, and people there?(I know about the bots after reading your article) It would be nice though if there was a way to access them without having to create separate accounts!
@stochastix I'm not sure how many people sign up for multiple instances, but if you know someone else's handle, you can find/contact them no matter what instance you're on (and even if they're on different instances). Your local & federated timelines will look different depending on what instance you're in though