A futuristic Mastodon introduction for 2021:
Focusing on things that come up frequently and I don’t see explained that often.
Here’s the lede: You can’t ever see or search everything posted on mastodon. You can only see the content that your instance knows about. This has some fascinating, positive, non-obvious implications. For more info on what’s ‘your instance’ and how does it know about stuff, keep reading.
(beta; comments welcome @elilla@transmom.love . thx queers from @embracing.space, @plural.cafe and others for help, if you want to be credited in public just ping me.) (current version: 2022-10-28, with minor updates 2023-06-19.)
Ok what is a masto?
Kinda like Twitter, but in the 🌌✨fediverse✨🌌.