Copied from https://pluspora.com/posts/83732 I thought this would illustrate why you are better off joining a well populated diaspora pod such as pluspora rather than setting up your own at first ----- For #gplus refugees and new #diaspora users i thought I'd post an explanation of how diaspora federation works from a comment to a post on another pod: In Diaspora, you can only see those posts, that are present on your pod. If you follow someone, you get the (new) posts of that account send to your pod, including reshares. Example: Pod1 has the Users A, B and C Pod2 has the Users D and E Pod3 has the Users F and G Pod4 has the User H A follows B and D B follows G D follows F If A writes a post, that post is visible for B and C, but only show up in their stream if it contains a hashtag they follow. If B writes a post, it pops up in As stream, because A follows B. These posts are not visible for D-H, because the posts are only on Pod1. If D writes a post, Pod2 automatically sends a co...
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