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I probably did not explain properly. While it is true that you can access publicly available contents from one registered instance, it helps to discover new contents and people if you _visit_ the instance where conversations happen. For example, if I wanted to add new people to follow on Mastodon.social, I'd have to visit the instance, I cannot do so from my personal instance. If you know otherwise or have a tip how that can be achieved, will appreciate your advice.
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Srijit Kumar Bhadra 2y ago

> "If you know otherwise or have a tip how that can be achieved, will appreciate your advice."

In any Mastodon public instance, there are typically three options:

1. Explore

2. Federated timeline

3. Local timeline

I understand that for the third option, one needs to explicitly visit the specific public instance. The other two options will give almost similar results from any Mastodon public instance. So for the the first two options, it is not mandatory to visit any specific instance.

I am not aware how your personal instance is configured. The "Explore" and "Federated Timeline" usually provides reasonable opportunities to discover new people and posts. In addition, one can follow hashtags for new content.

Based on my limited use of Nostr, I observe that either the "Explore" or "Federated Timeline" or these two choices together provide the equivalent of Global timeline of Nostr.

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Arin Basu 2y ago

My comment or statement was about the local timeline. Explore or Federated timeline (some apps call it "Global") provide you with a list of everyone who has shared status updates, with various degrees of separation, but that is not the same as going into the local timeline of an instance where you have your account and checking out new conversations. You won't be able to access them from global feeds/explore alone. For this one needs to check out the local timeline of the _instance_ where one has an account.

I hope it makes it clear what I wanted to write there.

Thanks!