Gregory's Server
@kissane
This is something it seems, again, may work okay on very large instances (though honestly I've not found it to work very well even on Universeodon), and not at all on smaller instances.
Also now that I think about it, I want to stress sometimes people have problems making the Fediverse work for them because they are trying to do something on the Fediverse that, actually, you can't. For instance, even if the Fediverse technologically supported surfacing discussions like the ones I describe here, that doesn't mean those discussions are happening in the first place! It would be great if I could search the whole Fediverse for recent posts about my town, but that doesn't mean anybody's actually talking about my town on the Fediverse.
This problem also shows up for trying to join a scene. Even if Mastodon et al. supported scenes in their discovery as well as Twitter does, that doesn't mean those scenes exist here.
@kissane It's reasonable enough to want to port your follow list from Twitter to Mastodon, but there's no guarantee that all or even just some of your Twitter buds have a presence on Mastodon in the first place. It's understandable that people want to hot swap Mastodon for Twitter, but insofar as one's personal experience of Twitter consists of one's curated list of follows, one can't just hot swap the Fediverse for Twitter, because the people you followed on Twitter are not necessarily on the Fediverse, and there is very little technology can do about that.
@kissane It's reasonable enough to want to port your follow list from Twitter to Mastodon, but there's no guarantee that all or even just some of your Twitter buds have a presence on Mastodon in the first place. It's understandable that people want to hot swap Mastodon for Twitter, but insofar as one's personal experience of Twitter consists of one's curated list of follows, one can't just hot swap the Fediverse for Twitter, because the people you followed on Twitter are not necessarily on the Fediverse,...