2. Following People
Like Twitter and Facebook, you can follow people on the Fediverse.
But but what's even better than Twitter and Facebook, is that you can follow anyone from any platform that is on the Fediverse, without having to sign up to the server.
- Calckey
- Mastodon
Following accounts on the same server
Let's say you are on calckey.social
for your Fediverse account. You can follow someone just by clicking the follow button.
Let's take Kainoa (@kainoa@calckey.social), for example, the founder of Calckey.
Their account is on calckey.social, and so is our example account.
I could simply go to https://calckey.social/@kainoa, to follow them.
Following accounts on different servers
Let's say you are on calckey.social
but you happened to have stumbled upon the other account of Kainoa ThatOneCalculator (@thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me). The follow button will be missing.
Fortunately, you don't need to create any new accounts, whatsoever!
You would copy the address from either the address bar, and paste it into the search bar of the server that you are signed up for.
Following accounts on different software
Let's say your account is on calckey.social
, and you want to follow someone on mastodon.social
, the procedure is very similar to following someone on an entirely different Calckeyinstance.
Following accounts on the same server
Let's say you are on mastodon.social
for your Fediverse account. You can follow someone just by clicking the follow button.
Let's take Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social), for example, the founder of Mastodon.
His account is on mastodon.social, and so is our example account.
I could simply go to https://mastodon.social/@Gargron, to follow him.
Following accounts on different servers
Let's say you are on mastodon.social
but you happened to have stumbled upon the account of the photographer named Leah (@leah@chaos.social). Clicking follow will, however, prompt you to create an account.
Fortunately, you don't need to create any new accounts, whatsoever!
You would copy the address from either the address bar, or the link that they prompt you to copy, and paste it into the search bar of the server that you are signed up for.