Hi, I’m new to the platform and I’m a little confused about how to follow other users. I go to their profile, click follow, but then it asks for my remote instance and I don’t know what that is. Could someone please guide me?

  • fabsecretpowers@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Mastodon is to twitter as lemmy is to reddit. Thanks to the way the fediverse works, though, most mastodon posts are visible from lemmy and vice versa. They’re just text posts with replies; the formatting and the way voting works may be different, but ultimately it’s all being broadcasted the same way.

    So you would find a mastodon instance to sign up to, then visit the profile you want to follow. So the url should look something like instance.com/@username@otherinstance.net

    Idk I tried to test it and it doesn’t seem to work, ignore me lol

    • Thea Aphros@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Oh, okay, I’ll check how to do it—although I did create an account there, I made my first post and got a ban alert… so I don’t think I’ll last long there.