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Someone recommended this page to me. It was quite interesting, but I found this confusing.

"My first week on Friendica I was puzzled by all the posts I would see in my feed from accounts I was not following. I only had 24 contacts then and yet my feed was populated by posts of people I did not recognize. I could not figure out why they showed up or how to “weed” those out. On Friendica you can follow hashtags - just like you can do on Mastodon - but those posts have a subtle hashtag icon at the top. I could not understand where the posts by random people came from... they did not contain hashtags I was following.
Friendica’s settings have a myriad of options. I finally figured out that what I needed to do was go to Settings > Social Networks > Followed Content Scope and select the option “only conversations my follows started”. That’s because the default setting on Friendica (as of August 2024) is “conversations my follows started or commented on”. This populates your feed with posts by people you do NOT follow, if one of your contacts replied to them."

I have the same problem. I went to Settings and couldn't find anything like this. Could it possibly be disabled at the friendica.world instance?

I had to laugh when I read that she doesn't like when Friendica is compared to Facebook. I actually joined precisely because Facebook was discontinuing their Basic Mobile site (not app) and I needed something that was actually accessible with NVDA! As for finding the page old fashion, I actually find it to be too modern for my taste, with collapsing menus, submenus, tabs, etc, instead of normal links. Using the main site, while nowhere near as bad as Facebook, is still a chore. For instance, I have to go through all sorts of links just to find the link to post, instead of there being an edit box and a post button right on the main page. Again, does all of this depend on instance, or is this the standard look of all Friendica pages?

On the positive side, I love the long posts here. In fact, that's why I chose Friendica in the first place. I never really format anything, other than indenting for paragraphs at times, but for those who do, it's good to have those options available.

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