@gsymon Yes, you can follow hashtags, but that doesn't...

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Yes, you can follow hashtags, but that doesn't guarantee that you'll see everything on the hashtag. You'll see all the posts with that hashtag _which have reached your instance_.

There's another kind of thing, I think it's called a group, where you include an @ for a special kind of account and it forwards everything sent to it. With those, because of the proactive forwarding, you _can_ see everything sent using the @.

@pvonhellermannn @inquiline

Like 10 March at 13:10 | Wall-to-wall | Open on scicomm.xyz

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Grant

@unchartedworlds @pvonhellermannn @inquiline

Ahh.. bugger. I give advice, but don't know what I'm talking about.🙂🙃Thanks for the clarification Jennifer.

I'm on a busy server, so I guess that's why it seems to work as I thought. As I understand it, if you follow someone on a specific server, then that will mean that posts on it are included in your feed. Is that correct?

https://a.gup.pe seems to be the main Groups place at the moment. Uhhh.. Pauline.. there's no ClimateDiary group!

10 March at 13:38 | Open on mstdn.social

Pauline von Hellermann

@gsymon @unchartedworlds @inquiline good point .. i guess i need to work out how to set that up. Everything on mastodon is so much work!

I really noticed lack of reach and #LossyDistribution when I searched #Eurocentrism a few weeks ago. I only saw about 5 posts, half my own. It really can’t be the case that noone ever uses it. Depressing enough that noone in my network ever talks about it, as Mastodon so incredibly eurocentric.

10 March at 14:06 | Open on mastodon.green

Pauline von Hellermann

@gsymon @unchartedworlds @inquiline

Btw I wasn’t looking for posts in other languages (i get quite a few), i just meant having connection to people from the Global South. That was for me the mostvaluable part of Twitter, that direct learning. These voices and connections are almost totally absent here. Here I struggle that so many people seem to be super comfortable in their little European bubble, never thinking about colonialism and the origins of all their comfort and privilege.

10 March at 14:11 | Open on mastodon.green

Grant

@pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline

Fediverse is indeed complex, but the advantages for those of us who abhor autocratic control, are worth the cost.. well for me they are.

Wondering about accessing non-federated servers..

If you created a User on a server in a global south region, adding hashtags / following accounts, then followed this new account, from your current account, would it be an effective way of expanding connections? The new account would effectively just be a 'link'.

10 March at 14:45 | Open on mstdn.social

Grant

@pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline

Of course, if you just explore some of these servers and follow someone on them, then that should 'link' you to the server as well.

10 March at 14:47 | Open on mstdn.social

Grant

@pvonhellermannn @unchartedworlds @inquiline

You're probably sitting watching the thirsty, but wary giraffe 😊(truly beautiful and illustrates the incredible privilege of our modern world, to be able to see such things)

I came across the giraffe whilst looking at fedi-servers in Africa. It was boosted by this account:

@AfricaUnion