It’s funny though, one consequence of the federation is that the domain name on the link gives you no clue you’re going to see Mastodon when you click it. (Unli

It’s funny though, one consequence of the federation is that the domain name on the link gives you no clue you’re going to see Mastodon when you click it. (Unlike centralized services like Twitter or Facebook.) If you wanted to see all the Mastodon links posted to HN, you’d have to either start with a list of all known Mastodon server domains and search those, or scrape all the links and pick out the ones that land on a Mastodon instance.