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There are many kinds of server types on the Fediverse (though Mastodon is by far the most popular right now).

For example, you can follow video livestreams such as @rstv which streams at live.retrostrange.com

Or you could follow a video account at @chriswere whose videos are hosted at share.tube/a/chriswere/videos

Although they appear to be Mastodon accounts when you interact with them within Mastodon, when you look at them on their home server they're clearly on a totally different platform.

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FediTips has moved!

I know this is a lot to take in, but think of it this way:

What if you could follow Instagram and Twitch and YouTube accounts from within Twitter?

Well, that's exactly how the Fediverse works! Different platforms are open to each other instead of being closed off as "walled gardens".

It's not competition, it's co-operation. When one platform's userbase grows, so does the userbase of all the other platforms.

The video shared in an earlier post is exactly about this:

framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVe

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Chuck Durfee

@feditips naive question, so let’s say I wanted to use share.tube, would I create an account there and then link my Mastodon account to that one?

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