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?
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!