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@IgnisIncendio

On a forum, you have lots of members talking to each other.

On a Fediverse server, you have lots of people mostly talking to people on other servers.

Not all servers are themed, for example mas.to, mastodon.social, mastodon.online, mstdn.social are just general servers.

The ones that are themed may do so for lots of different reasons such as agreed rules, shared identity (shown in the address ending), funding (if you're a member of a co-operative) etc.

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@IgnisIncendio

One of the major confusions on here is people think they have to join a server to take part in discussions, and if you're not a member you're somehow missing out on those.

This isn't the case at all. There is no way of creating server-only posts on standard Mastodon, so any discussions that go on are always cross-server.

You can restrict a post's audience to followers or mentions, but you cannot restrict it to your server.

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Ignis Incendio

@feditips Thank you for the clarification.

Edit: to be honest, I still find the concept hard to grasp… I understand servers aren’t isolated by default but there’s articles like this: cfenollosa.com/blog/you-may-be

Right now I have like 5 different accounts (in my bio) LOL which have very diverging interests (for example I feel a bit weird putting eg pup play stuff onto my tech profile xD) but I guess I can always merge them in the future if I feel it’s too much

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