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submitted 1 year ago by mrnb0dy@alien.top to c/mastodon
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A few questions and apologies if they have been answered before:

- Any resources to read on how the federated toots work?

- Are there any tools to visualize how my toots reach (or not) other instances or users?

- Is there a 'view profile as' option that I can use to see if a specific user can see what I post?

I'm part of an instance based on my interests, but I can easily see my self being part of a couple more instances.. what is the best way to reach these other instances? Is making multiple accounts and boosting my original toots an option? Will boosting a toot as part of an instance make it visible to all the members of that instance?

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[–] JustDalek_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Im not familiar with tools like this, but one thing you can do is include a unique hashtag for your posts and after like 20 mins go check other instances for your hashtag to see if your post federated

I do this a little from time to time, but not only because I want to see if my posts federated, but also because I want to see if there's posts I have not federated with on my instance that I would like to connect with

I havent done this, but a way to do this is create a bookmark folder on your browser, and go to multiple instances on joinmastodon.org

On those servers, go to your hashtag URL
Bookmark each server with this

Example with #cats:

https://mastodon.social/tags/cats

https://mas.to/tags/cats

https://mstdn.jp/tags/cats

Once you have all of these in a bookmarks folder, whenever you want to check them all at once, hit the folder with your middle mouse button and it should open them all at once, then take a look around!