the stream here is kind of overwhelming. is there some medium ground between firehose and follows?

@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)

@RadHominin hahaha, no worries ^__^

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

@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.

@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. :-)
@codechemist @RadHominin totally! just makes a difference for what shows up on your "local" tab, afaict
@develleoper @RadHominin in any case, apologies for chiming in with my misunderstanding. *facepalm*
@codechemist @RadHominin haha, no worries. hit me up if you ever hear of a solution! 🙂