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Cool link! Thanks

Yeah, I think it works fine-ish for a single instance, but federation needs work.

Yep. nothing yet.

Thanks!

Though I appear to be having trouble having people follow me from other servers. I don’t see you in my followers list, and when I tried following a test account on another server, I didn’t see their posts. Not sure what’s going on. Does it just take a while for the servers to sync?

Do you see any of my posts?

@ciuffo@ciuffo.servebeer.com

Yeah, but that’s the thing. You can only search if you know the exact username of the user on the other server. But you can’t find usernames on other servers without creating an account there.

I wish it was more like Lemmy where you can browse other instances without an account at that instance.

That makes sense. It is a bit ironic. Like everyone wants to go back to old Instagram where you just keep up with friends, but I think we’ve all grown accustomed to our feeds and our friends don’t have enough cute cats and dogs to accommodate our interests.

How do you find someone on Instagram if you are not an Instagram user?

How do you find something on Mazda Forum if you are on Reddit?

How you find something on AVForums if you are on AVS Forum?

If you’re trying to promote federation, this isn’t the way to go about it.

you take the post/user’s original URL,

Ok, but if I don’t have an account on their instance, how do I even find their URL?

Right, but hashtags only show posts on my instance which at the moment is just me.

https://drop-kicker.com/2014/02/your-fundraising-goal-is-bullshit/

Ok, so I spent the weekend getting my own Pixelfed instance working for my friends who want off Instagram.

My big question, is how do you discover new content?

Sure you can follow people on other instances, but how do you find them in the first place?

Also, basically all of the content I’ve been able to find so far has been artsy photos of fences and beaches and whatnot. It’s pretty and all, but there’s not much of humanity in my feed.