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by allenbrunson
1278 days ago
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if you look at a user or post who is on your server, i.e., the domain displayed in the url bar is your server, then you're fine. if you're viewing a post or user on their own server, i.e., it is their domain in the url bar, instead of yours, that's where things get ugly. |
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Wait! You do know you can see the users and posts of any server (even if it is not the server you are on) on the server you have account with, right?
Like https://mastodon.social/@fosstodon@fosstodon.org shows you a fosstodon.org user on your mastodon.social instance and all you need to do is hit the follow button!
Here is the opposite. https://fosstodon.org/@Gargron@mastodon.social where you see a Mastodon.social user on fosstodon.org instance. Again you need to just hit the follow button to follow that user from fosstodon.org. As simple as that! You don't really need to find a way to log into the other server. You don't have to do any rigmarole or ugly stuff. That's how federation works!