I mean, it’s just like e-mail addresses, I really don’t understand the difficulty. Yes technically if I want to e-mail joe smith, I need to know his address, including what mail provider he uses. Which is why when I ask for his e-mail address he tells me “Joesmith@gmail.com”. and not just joesmith.
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dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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TheFogan@programming.dev 1 month ago
muelltonne@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yeah, I really don’t understand why people are so confused. From a practical perspective your username is username@instance.tld and that’s it. You’re on some server and can simply follow that guy@mastodon.social and you will see the posts.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You need to know what instance your friend is on.
of course you need. your friends need to tell you. only they can know. just like with email and IRL cities
noxy@yiffit.net 1 month ago
you need to know what domain your friend uses for email if you email them
you need to know your friend’s area code if you call or text them
you need to know the password that goes with your username on your computer
not blaming you for your friends struggling with this, just, ugh, how does anyone struggle with this?
macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The weird thing is that it doesn’t matter what instance/server your friends are on. If they follow you, they’ll get all your posts in their feed. The best advice I can give anyone starting out on Mastodon is to follow tags instead of people in order to surface interesting posts, then you can follow people as they come up on feeds.