@llrd4 @geordie
I get that, my point is that to get some stuff to work in mastodon, you need to explicity work with the internals. Like in the very old days of email you might need to specify bang paths to get a mail to route correctly.
Understanding the difference between the home, local and federated feeds, and finding and registering people to follow are more complcated for low-tech skill users than they need to be.