I just invented the hashtage #Tootfluencer (TM) (R) (C). You're welcome.
If you choose to follow me, please also follow me on Mastodon.club, because I think that will likely be my primary instance. Same user and avatar.
INTRO TO FEDERATION 2:
1. Servers (instances) mostly communicate 2 ways: sending posts to each other & sending profiles to each other
2. When person A's profile is first sent over, it only has their name, avatar & bio*
3. When someone on your server Y follows A, their server will send Y their toots & these are A's only toots that Y knows about*
4. # of toots/followers/follows on A's profile on Y all refer to the # of t/f/f which are actually on Y directly or indirectly
*simplified 4 brevity
It's entirely too difficult finding people to follow and the whole,
"scroll through this massive feed and randomly follow people based on one toot you liked"
isn't really sustainable. What's the solution?
Perhaps we need a Follow Friday type of thing?
In case you're wondering... you can quickly track searches for #hashtags /via /web/timelines/tag/ links (ex. https://mastodon.cloud/web/timelines/tag/nodejs) https://mastodon.cloud/media/kwvsw1jkjeqBE9nOvbY