Anyone figure out how to discover accounts *not* on this local server yet? Rebuilding my econ-twitter follows seems easy; the others seem a lot harder.
Even searching for accounts that I know exist (bc they posted about them on twitter) doesn't find them. Maybe I'm formatting them wrong? @username@server.server?
Now I've found a couple. Maybe the ones I was looking for were set to hidden.
But it seems like when I try to follow people on other servers, they always have to approve it before I can.
@jesse_rothstein I don’t think that’s always the case. I think it’s an option people set. Try putting the following url into your search? https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet and following them?
@paulgp I had to reformat as "@atomicpoet". I could find him and clicked the follow button. It seemed to work. But he doesn't show up on my follows list, and if I search for him again the follow icon is replaced by an hourglass, with hovertext saying it is waiting to be approved. None of the mastodon.social people I've tried to follow yet show up on my follows list.
@jesse_rothstein I think this is due to the server having a lot of load. Let’s see if this clears up
@paulgp Makes sense. Thank you for setting it up!