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Yavuz Selim

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geveze.social

Ah, yes, the workaround. Yes, you are right, I made that discovery a few days ago.

Indeed, when I browse Mastodon through my own instance and happen to find your post, I can indeed reply.

However, the easiest method for me is to just go to the explore/local/federated pages of other instances directly. I can find much more doing it that way, and that's also how I found your original post.

I just opened the explore page of a large instance, and just randomly saw your post.

Yavuz Selim

> "However, the easiest method for me is to just go to the explore/local/federated pages of other instances directly."

What I meant with this is discovering new users and content.

I have a single user instance, which means that I need to interact with others before my instance gets some content from other instances. Hard to find new content without interaction, basically.

But the downside of directly browsing an instance is that the reply and follow buttons don't work.

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@yavuz

It's not a workaround, it's the main way you are meant to use the browser :)

You'll find other servers' accounts and posts within your own server's web interface through the various discovery methods such as boosts, searches, tag following and the Explore tab.

If you want to browse another server's website directly, either use a browser extension or copy/paste the URL of a post or profile into the search box on your own server's website. Neither of these involves dialogue boxes.