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@Kataphract And, if, for example, there's a feature you really miss that Mastodon doesn't have, you can move to something that does have it and keep your followers/followings. For example, quote posts. Half my damn social graph is not-Mastodon. And I think Pixelfed has implemented import from Instagram although I haven't tested it yet since I don't do much Instagram.

@Kataphract Things might display a little differently, but because they're all using the same protocol, in this case ActivityPub, they can all communicate back and forth.

@Kataphract From your Mastodon instance's website, (not sure which client you're using), you can search for a user or a magazine, or drop a URL of a post from same, and reply or like or boost or follow. Once you've followed a user or magazine you'll get their posts in your home timeline and you can interact from there.

@Kataphract Yes.

@Kataphract all those kinds of servers. This is not an exhaustive list: There's Funkwhale for music-sharing, Bookwyrm for books, and you can follow-interact with people using those bits regardless of where you are yourself. There are also websites running WordPress for example that you can also interact with.

@Kataphract Not sure I'd classify it so much as different servers based on different topics. It's more like: You can join a server, running one piece of software, and talk to other people on other servers running other pieces of software. So, let's say you're on a Mastodon server, but you have friends on a Lemmy or Calkey or Miskey or KBin server. All of you can talk to each other and follow each other's posts, lists, communities, and you don't all have to have separate accounts for +