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*Note. I am referring to adding people who are on Friendica. I have managed to figure out how to add people who are on Mastodon, as the process is streight forward, though I am still seeking a directory of their groups, etc.*
How do I follow people or groups? I know there is a directory, and I have been reviewing it, but most of the listings no longer work or haven't been updated in awhile. I also had to sort by English. On my friendica.world page itself, it has a "Search" option. I can type, for example, "blindness". But there is no way to sort by posts, people, groups, etc. so I have to go through all sorts of post where people just mention blindness and then, maybe, find a group or interest among them. I then found this site.

tiotrom.com/2020/11/the-beginn…

"In the contacts settings, you can search people based on interests (keywords)."

I don't see this option. The only thing about contacts that I can find is "Manage Contacts". There, the search function is to search among my own, not to add new ones.

"Friendica opens the doors to pretty much any Federated network. Say you find a Mastodon account in the wild. Copy the url to your Friendica search bar then simply follow them. Do the same for any other Federated network. Now you can interact with these people (send private messages, see their posts in your feed, comment to them, like, share, etc.)."

What is this search bar? Is this the "Search" option I found on my main page?

There is a lot more about following pages, etc. on that site, but for now, I'm just trying to learn the basics. Also, does the main page of each node look different from what I see on riendica.world or is it a unified format?

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Sorry, I didn't see this one!

Adding someone from Friendica should be as straightforward as adding someone from Mastodon, as long as you have their address already. If you mean finding them through Friendica, I actually just used the directory you were speaking about and understand your issue now.

I will be honest and say that discoverability in the fediverse isn't the best. Since there is no algorithm, your feed is what you make of it, including the slow process of looking up hashtags like #blind and adding people that talk about it often, which opens up more connections so forth and so on.

I *do* know that the old Reddit moderators of r/blind did set up a Lemmy instance, which is part of the fediverse. If you search for the main community (rblind.com/c/main) in the top search bar for Friendica, you will be able to join the group and the discussions that pop up. It doesn't seem too active currently, but the more the merrier :)

#blind
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Georgiana Brummell
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Thank you so much! You have truly been wonderful and patient with me. I really appreciate it. I am accustomed to Facebook and Dreamwidth (extremely similar to Livejournal, if you've ever used that), where I can type in a keyword, hit search, and see things sorted according to type i.e. posts, people, groups/journals, etc. I thought that's what the keywords were for in my profile. That would be very similar to Dreamwidth, in which you add certain interests so that people can find you that way. Speaking of which, when I entered my keywords into my profile, I noticed that it didn't work well with phrases. for instance, cats, is fine. But classical music isn't. It takes the two words as being separate, even though the comma comes after music. I thought maybe I would need to add brackets or quotes, but upon reviewing the documentation, it doesn't seem that way. Anyway, I am going to join that group and see if I can search for a few other things, now that I know the method for doing so.
in reply to Georgiana Brummell

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You are very welcome! I do believe the tags you speak of work that way, and I know mastodon has them too, but at this point I don't know if that particular thing crosses over... The good news is that interoperability is increasing all the time!

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any other questions. I might not know the answer, but will do my best to find it!

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Georgiana Brummell
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It seems that using the at sign @ is for names and groups, while the number sign # is for tags and content. You probably already knew that, but I'm not accustomed to searching for things in this manner. Still, that does appear to work. It says it in the prompt, but I didn't realise it until I had searched a few times.
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