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You also don't need to be on the same server as your friends.

You can find each other from different servers by exchanging account addresses, here's how it works:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#WhatsMyAccountsAddress

It's a bit like exchanging phone numbers!

@feditips so, kinda like sharing an email address. In fact, the format is exactly the same as an email address.

Agung

@feditips I'm sorry if I'm asking something off topic, but any way I can view the list of hashtags I followed?

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p.s. By the way, a lot of the servers on https://joinmastodon.org/servers say "get on waitlist" but this phrasing is misleading.

A lot of these servers don't have a waitlist at all and will accept you pretty quickly, within a few hours in some cases. It's just the server admin is screening out spammers by switching on the "why do you want to join?" form, because spambots find this form harder to cope with.

Anstey Spraggan/Harris

@feditips If there are countless ways of opening an account with one’s own name, how do you stop countless imitations? Surely someone could copy your name & just have a different suffix/group.

neilh90

@feditips is there a way at all to see the timeline of other servers?

Zhenbo Li

@feditips The phone number simile is great! If I exchange phone number with my friend, we don’t need to be using the same wireless service. Maybe one is Bell, while other is Rogers. We can even be in different countries!

However, social platforms are forcing us to use the same one. If I’m on twitter and my friend is on Facebook, well, one of us have to move. It also applies to WhatsApp, telegram, iMessage….

Mastodon might be the best chance to take back users’ right to use different servers.

Zach Love

@feditips I ended up signing up for an account on two servers, any recommendations for best practice?

Should I delete one? Guessing better to do sooner than later.

It does seem to be different crowds on each. Can I consolidate the people I’m following to one account & still see the same stuff?

TephlonBlonde

@feditips how do I see what others post in response to a post? I think there are 7 responses to this but I cannot read them.

Ethan Trawick

@feditips You really do though.

No one wants to constantly have to switch back and forth between browser tabs while copy and pasting URLs into a website search bar to interact and respond to posts. It's terrible UX.

Sue Beard

@feditips I am finding it impossible to follow people from the link they send. I get this message. I am using chrome on android. The search bar on the left is not operational, I can't search for either users or hashtags. Any advice you could give would be appreciated.

Tweeter

@feditips This was the toot I needed on my new journey! Thanks