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  • Common Community & Interest Hashtags

    Hashtags are a foundational concept on the Fediverse due to how Mastodon servers limit search (and Mastodon dominates the network, so you have to learn to play by Mastodon’s rules if you want to be seen). This means they’re the primary way people find and interact with posts and people on particular topics. Do keep […]

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  • The Fediverse Doesn’t Work the Way You (Probably) Think

    tl;dr: Hashtag links, search, and visible posts and replies are all local to your home instance. If a post hasn’t been delivered to your instance, you can’t see it. People coming to the Fediverse — that is, the decentralized network of ‘federated’ social media websites and communities running Mastodon, Misskey (or Calckey, like KPO), PixelFed, […]

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