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Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

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Post by ColinWright »

ohtwenty wrote: post #25
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #20

I don't quite understand the relationship between the various instances on Mastodon. Once you join an instance are you stuck on that instance for life? What happens if you want to participate on another instance? Can I reply to comments on other instances?

So yeah, you can talk with other instances. And if you want to migrate you should be able to download am your stuff and migrate follower lists etc

Currently you can download the list of people you follow, but have no way to migrate the people who follow you. If you're simply moving then you can leave a forwarding address, but that's currently the best you can do.

People are actively working on it to ensure that people can move across instances smoothly, but it's not yet there.

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

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Post by ColinWright »

rocky1138 wrote: post #2

That rocky1138 guy is a great person to follow https://kwat.chat/rocky1138 cough

Maybe you can help me here. I'm on a Mastodon instance:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo

I've clicked on your link, but from the page I get I can find no way to follow you.

What should I be doing? Do I click the "Subscribe" link at the top left? Given that your page doesn't look at all like the Mastodon I'm used to, it's not at all clear.

Advice welcome.

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

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Post by RX14 »

ColinWright wrote: post #32
rocky1138 wrote: post #2

That rocky1138 guy is a great person to follow https://kwat.chat/rocky1138 cough

Maybe you can help me here. I'm on a Mastodon instance: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo I've clicked on your link, but from the page I get I can find no way to follow you. What should I be doing? Do I click the "Subscribe" link at the top left? Given that your page doesn't look at all like the Mastodon I'm used to, it's not at all clear. Advice welcome.

You can click subscribe and put in your mastodon address ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz, or you can search rocky1138@kwat.chatin the mastodon search box and click follow from there.

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

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Post by vigliag »

ColinWright wrote: post #32
rocky1138 wrote: post #2

That rocky1138 guy is a great person to follow https://kwat.chat/rocky1138 cough

Maybe you can help me here. I'm on a Mastodon instance: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo I've clicked on your link, but from the page I get I can find no way to follow you. What should I be doing? Do I click the "Subscribe" link at the top left? Given that your page doesn't look at all like the Mastodon I'm used to, it's not at all clear. Advice welcome.

You can copy-paste the profile url in mastodon's searchbar, it'll open that profile in the UI of your mastodon instance, so you can follow it as you normally would.

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

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Post by NoGravitas »

rayalez wrote: post #16

I have made HackerNewsBot [1] (it publishes stories with 100+ points), comedy bot [2] that reposts jokes and showerthoughts from reddit, writing prompts bot [3], and webcomics bot [4]. My favorite people to follow are: @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social (webcomics artist) @lumen@mastodon.social (writes jokes) @Gargron@mastodon.social (creator of mastodon) @cwebber@octodon.social (author of ActivityPub) And a few cool eng…

I follow several of your bots!

One feature request: webcomics bot should provide links to the original when posting, so that people can find webcomics they want to follow regularly.

Re: Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

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Post by [deleted] »

NoGravitas wrote: post #39
rayalez wrote: post #16

I have made HackerNewsBot [1] (it publishes stories with 100+ points), comedy bot [2] that reposts jokes and showerthoughts from reddit, writing prompts bot [3], and webcomics bot [4]. My favorite people to follow are: @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social (webcomics artist) @lumen@mastodon.social (writes jokes) @Gargron@mastodon.social (creator of mastodon) @cwebber@octodon.social (author of ActivityPub) And a few cool eng…

I follow several of your bots! One feature request: webcomics bot should provide links to the original when posting, so that people can find webcomics they want to follow regularly.

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