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#mastodon #newbie #tutorial
There are no #public posts. 🥺
Posts are sent only to the people following you (plus your local server community which may be a few people or a lot, it depends on where you are), nobody else.
People wanting to follow you cannot see your old posts either.
The system is basically "subscribers only", that's "federation".
#mastodon #newbie #Tutorial #public
czar_roland
czar_roland  
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New to the platform. That’s really helpful
grin
grin  
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@czar_roland People can amplify posts, though, by using the #boost feature, which "reposts" it, or sends to all their subscribers.
Interesting posts can be boosted throughout the web of connections between people and may reach large amount of people very fast.
#boost @czar_roland
grin
grin  
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@czar_roland Also I wasn't telling all the details: when one person "pulls posts to a server" then they will be available for everyone locally, so one very active account can populate a server with "public" posts available locally.
It may give a false feeling of "real" public posts, but they aren't, they were just pulled by someone local.
@czar_roland
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