Ancestors

Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-16 at 19:00

There's a really useful thing on here called a "Fediverse address".

All accounts on Mastodon, Pixelfed and other Fediverse platforms have a unique address:

@ username @ server name

If you paste an account's Fediverse address into the search box on Mastodon, Pixelfed etc, the account's profile page will appear, even if it never showed up in searches before! You can tell people your Fediverse address so they can follow you on here more easily.

More info:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address

[#]FediTips

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-17 at 00:36

p.s. You can find the Fediverse addresses for lots of interesting accounts sorted into categories at https://fedi.directory

(Click on an address to see the account's profile.)

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Written by Sourdough Stereo on 2025-01-17 at 04:46

@FediTips Great, thanks. Lots of accounts with 0 posts and 0 followers though. Nothing on sourdough , nothing on gluten-free. How do I get into that list? :)

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-17 at 09:08

@sourdoughstereo

None of them have 0 post or 0 followers. It's a manually curated list, I wouldn't be listing accounts if they weren't posting anything! 😀

You're possibly not seeing the posts on some accounts because no one from your server has followed it before, but if you follow it the posts will start showing up on your server too. More info at:

https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/

Message my other account @FediFollows if you want to be suggested for listing or if you want to suggest a topic.

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Toot

Written by Magitian on 2025-01-17 at 09:57

@FediTips some accounts on Lemmy.ml seem to show the same for me as well; could that mean no one on this instance follows anyone from Lemmy?

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Descendants

Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-17 at 10:13

@magitian

If you ever see an account anywhere on the Fediverse with no posts even though you know it has posts, it's probably because you're the first to follow it from your server.

You can see its actual number of posts by going to its "original page", its profile on its own server:

https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon/

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Written by ZeStig :emacs: :archlinux: :rust: :gnu: on 2025-01-17 at 10:15

@FediTips but does that hold true for other #Fediverse software (say Lemmy) too?

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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-17 at 10:17

@zstg

It holds true for any Fediverse software, unless your server has some form of "backfilling".

(Backfilling means your server loads some or all of the posts from an account even if no one is following it.)

As far as I know the only Fediverse software with full backfilling is PeerTube, but it's a video platform so the number of posts tends to be much smaller than for text-based platforms.

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