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1. Melissa Sage (melissasage@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 00:40:34 UTC Melissa Sage

   so i'm trying to figure out how one joins an existing mastodon instance from the existing profile- how does that all work?

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 00:56:57 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @melissasage You go to someone's profile on the remote site, say the.site/@theuser .
     
     There's a "Remote Follow" button. Click it, and in "Enter your username@domain ..." you enter melissasage@mastodon.social, click "Proceed to follow", click "Follow" -- boom, you're now receiving messages from that remote site.
   • Sim (sim@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 01:02:25 UTC Sim

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     You have to create another account when you use different instances, as far as I know they don't follow over. You can remote follow, but that is about it... at least through GS. I'm not familiar with the changes on Mastodon.
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 05:38:50 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @melissasage Oh! You were asking how you can migrate your profile over. Yeah, the network doesn't support doing this. Thanks @sim for reading it correctly.
     
     As for "look at witches.town", if that site doesn't have a public timeline for non-users to see (and Mastodon sites don't by default), you're pretty much screwed. You can hope that people on your site are following the interesting people, and then you'd be able to see them in the Federated timeline on your site.
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 20:00:13 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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     If you want to get a flavour of some conversations check out the timeline of a #Followbot eg. http://sn.jonkman.ca/firehose/all If anyone catches your interest, you can follow them from your own instance. /cc: @sim@social.heldscal.la @melissasage@mastodon.social @clacke@social.heldscal.la
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 20:15:57 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @bobjonkman @sim @melissasage Yes. For those sites that do have public timelines and whole-network timelines for unauthorized users, you can catch their view of the fediverse there. You can even go to https://social.heldscal.la/clacke/all and see my personal view of the fediverse.
     
     But unless somebody on the outside enumerates and follows all users at a particular Mastodon site, there is no way to observe what kind of discourse goes on there, without registering.