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INTRO TO FEDERATION:

1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.

2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.

3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.

4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!

Gideon Rosenblatt 👁 @gideonro@mastodon.technology

@chr - I was just trying to find someone from the mastodon.social/ server using their handle, but they don't show up in search results. Does search work across servers?

Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕ @dredmorbius

@gideonro @chr I found you searching @gideon from mastodon.cloud, FYI.

Gideon Rosenblatt 👁 @gideonro@mastodon.technology

@dredmorbius @chr good to know. Do you mean that you didn't have to include the "mastodon.technology" address?

Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕ @dredmorbius

@gideonro @chr Correct. Search will match any substring. "@leo" turnes up Leo Laport for me. You've got to visually filter the results, but with ~40 - 80k users across instances, that's still viable. Won't be in a while assuming growth.

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