Mastodon uses the “twitter model” of things. You can see posts in one of two ways:

1. follow someone, and you can see their posts

2. search for a tag or query, and related posts will show up.

I think mastodon also lets you see every post made on the instance or in general as one big feed as well (but twitter doesn’t do this).

Here on kbin, mastodon posts are automatically categorized for us and grouped into different magazines. if you click into a magazine and click on “microblog” you can see the mastodon posts. similarly, you can go to @random magazine to see just a general feed of things.

notably, the fediverse doesn’t discriminate between things, so a mastodon user can reply to your comment here, and you’d be able to see their response like normal.

on kbin, we can follow magazines which group content by topic, or we can follow people, and just get everything those people post. the former is the “reddit style” of doing things, while the latter is the “twitter style”.

For mastodon users, everything “works” like the latter “twitter style”, whereas their posts for us show up sometimes as “reddit style” and sometimes as “twitter style” depending on the context.