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Sure, but I never had that experience. I just read along and then tried to sub to Charles Stross but he was on another instance and then I had to do some convoluted thing which is supposed to make sense - I never found that the thing was transparent and functional. Like I said, Lemmy works because the main thing isn't following people. The occasional hiccup with instances is not a problem at all. But don't get me wrong, it's not really difficult to use mastodon, it just makes my blood boil
If I find someone from another instance in my flow I don't need to do anything other than click on them and click follow. As long as you search from your instance, and not somewhere externally you can just follow them. Also the process when it's not your home server it's just a box where you enter your user name, not really convoluted. So I don't see what you're getting so worked up about to be honest.
Sure lemmy is easy in that way, and if you like it more by all means just use it :) Nothing stopping you from that, but you are playing up non issues as "infuriating"
Well it seems a whole lot of people are playing issues up - it's a small thing but it really matters. And I'm just saying what my experience is, no big deal - I prefer this sort of place anyway :) But I think I saw somebody made a browser extension which is supposed to solve the random instance thing, so that it always forces you back to yours or something
@MayonnaiseArch There are extensions which make it easier to interact with remote instances, like Roam With Mastodon. https://fo.llow.social/roam
Nice! This is cool