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Using https://hotaudiofiction.social/u/@effinbirds@mastodon.social (when logged into said instance) throws a 404 for me.
HOWEVER... using https://kbin.social/u/@effinbirds@mastodon.social when I'm logged into that instance does not.
Which is good news. I mean, bad news that we have a misconfig or something not setup correctly (yet), but good that it works! Off to figure out why not. And, hopefully, figure out what sort of timeline we have here on /kbin!
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Let's say a user wants to join a dedicated /kbin instance for audio fiction. There are a variety of magazines on that instance, by genre, title, new releases, etc. It's a nifty theoretical instance. 😉
But this user wants to do more than just interact with the magazines and people on that instance. They want to use their account on this /kbin instance to follow accounts not on that server. So maybe @fraser@m.universetoday.com
because they are quite interested in Astronomy, @effinbirds@mastodon.social
because they like funny birds talking shit, and @ernest@kbin.social
because they are interested in learning more about /kbin. Again, they want to follow all three of those accounts with the account they made on this not-so-mythical audio fiction-centetric /kbin server.
Can they? How do they search for, find, and follow those accounts because those accounts are not (yet, at least) "connected" to the unnamed (it's hotaudiofiction.social) /kbin instance?
And if they can, how would they see the posts from those un-connected accounts? Like, where is the "timeline" view in /kbin?
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OG Podcaster from way back in 2004. Co-authored Podcasting For Dummies way back in 2005. Ran Podiobooks.com from 2005–2015. Hall of Fame class of ‘22.
Retired from podcast punditry and now focused on curating #AudioFiction at @theendupdates
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