@kelspace it's kind of confusing because federation isn't working exactly properly between this instance and mastodon.social
@typhlosion I mean it was already confusing because I 99% don't understand federation and don't expect to, so, this is mostly just me trying to also be here if mastodon.social collapses under the weight of... whatever is happening
@typhlosion I guess it's the 'can' part that confuses me to no end, like I'm sure that's the exciting tech difference but I like to know what WILL happen when I interact with a person using a thing, apparently? Still chewing on this.
@typhlosion I have a long history of being enthusiastic about tech only to be reminded I don't understand it so please don't feel bad that I don't get this, seriously
I might go back to watching and seeing if functions become apparent, maybe my problem is just that it isn't working (even though it looks a lot like when it was working, to me)
@kelspace posts from instances this one federates with show up in the federated timeline
when you follow someone on another instance, you can get their posts on your home timeline
i think you can also @ people on other instances too, but cross-instance DMing doesn't work yet