Danielle (Elle) BurgessNov 13, 2017
the stream here is kind of overwhelming. is there some medium ground between firehose and follows?
Show threadRadHomininNov 13, 2017

@develleoper Definitely having fun trying to track down instances that may be related to my interests.

(I am a total stranger, I just latched on to you because your post was written in a language I speak and isn't talking about cryptocurrency)

Show threadDanielle (Elle) BurgessNov 13, 2017

@RadHominin hahaha, no worries ^__^

how does it work, to belong to multiple instances? can you link the accounts together?

Show threadRadHomininNov 13, 2017

@develleoper I haven't been able to find any way to link profiles - as far as I can tell, they seem to be entirely standalone entities. I saw some post on some site (I've been googling a lot to try and work my way through here) that suggested this was a much-clamoured for functionality.

As near as I can tell, at the moment, you just have to set up an account for each instance you want to join. I could be completely wrong, though.

Show threadcodechemistNov 13, 2017
@RadHominin @develleoper I think you really only need to belong to one instance. But you can follow or message anyone on any instance, providing it hasn’t been blocked by your instance administrator (or yourself). I think… Definitely not an expert. :-)
Show threadDanielle (Elle) BurgessNov 13, 2017
@codechemist @RadHominin totally! just makes a difference for what shows up on your "local" tab, afaict
Show threadcodechemist
@develleoper @RadHominin oh I see. Yeah that could be kind of cool if you find individual servers that cater to your interests. Sorry, I missed the point earlier. 😆 mastodon.social is large and noisy enough that I don’t find the local (or federated for that matter) feed very useful. I tend to just save searches for topics I’m interested in the app I’m using.
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