kɜ:ʳ 
is a user on cybre.space. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
INTRO TO FEDERATION:
1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.
2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.
3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.
4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!
@chr - I was just trying to find someone from the mastodon.social/ server using their handle, but they don't show up in search results. Does search work across servers?
@forteller @Gargron @chr - got it working. You just have to specify the server along with the name and then it shows up.
kɜ:ʳ
@chr
@forteller @gideonro @gargron
- deprioritizing being able to search for words was an intentional design decision to prevent dogpiling/namesearching
- fuzzy searching names on other servers could increase load a lot and would almost certainly only show people from servers yours has communicated with before (that being said it might be possible to do in a limited capacity)
@chr @Gargron @forteller - yes, and if there is a centralized registry, that kinda takes away from the whole idea, I suppose.