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Isn't it possible to follow an individual on Mastodon from here ? (multiverse.soulism.net)

submitted 1 day ago by Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there a way to "retrieve remote user" to get to their page if they don't comment on any posts?

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, actually! There are two ways you could force a user to get fetched that I can think of:

@-mention them in a post or comment and then click that link after the post/comment is made...if piefed doesn't already know that user, it will go fetch that user.
Just input the lookup url directly. This is what is happening behind the scenes in #1, but the url structure looks like this (looking up myself using piefed.zip as an example): https://piefed.zip/user/lookup/wjs018/piefed.wjs018.xyz

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

#2 worked! Now I'm waiting for them to post something

Thanks 🙂