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@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ There is [no unified global search in Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mas
Mastodon users are presented with three timelines: a home timeline with posts from accounts the user follows, a local timeline with posts from the local instance, and a federated timeline with all posts that have been retrieved from remote instances.
Mastodon has [public relays](https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/pub-relay) which rebroadcast anything sent to it to anyone who subscribes to the pub.
A [2019 analysis](https://emilianodc.com/PAPERS/mastodonIMC19.pdf) of the Mastodon ecosystem found that the majority of posts are concentrated on a few instances, and outages in 10 instances would remove almost half of all posts from the network.
Mastodon's interface has a "Profile Directory" tab, where users can browse recently active profiles or new arrivals from both their own instance or the fediverse to discover who to follow. Users can select featured hashtags to be displayed on their public profile so people can browse their posts by hashtag.
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### User experience
Mastodon's main initial selling point was its familiar interface that behaved like Tweetdeck. Many other federated social applications that work essentially the same way had tried and failed to get mainstream adoption prior to Mastodon, largely due to unfamiliar user interfaces.
Mastodon's main initial selling point was its familiar interface that behaved like Tweetdeck. Prior to Mastodon, projects like GNU social and Diaspora tried and failed to get mainstream adoption. Mastodon succeeded in large part because it created a familiar user interface that looked and behaved like Twitter, allowing users who were dissatisfied to find a new place to land with minimum effort.
Notable design choices in Mastodon that differ from Twitter: Instead of a 280 character limit, there is a 500 character limit. "Likes" are not broadcast to third-parties. "Retweet" and "Like" numbers are not shown until a post is clicked on. If a user with an unlocked account gets a follow request from an account that has been silenced by the server's moderators (either manually, or at their domain), the user will get a follow request instead of automatically allowing the new account to follow.

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Mastodon servers store content from users followed by members of the server. Users are presented with three timelines: a home timeline with posts from accounts the user follows, a local timeline with posts from the local instance, and a federated timeline with all posts that have been retrieved from remote instances. There is no global search functionality. This issue being discussed in Mastodon: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9529
Mastodon has [public relays](https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/pub-relay) which rebroadcast anything sent to it to anyone who subscribes to the pub.
To overcome the difficulties of new users finding people to follow to get connected to the network, [Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk/) is a community-built tool that helps users find and follow people by category.
Hashtags are used to filter and discover content in ssb, Diaspora, and Mastodon.
### Matrix