Follow
First difficult thing to explain to new mastodon users: there are different instances, and they have to follow your accounts on all of them
Second difficult thing to explain to new mastodon users: why you will only follow them back from the one account
@sargoth this is not specifically a Masto problem but an OStatus problem, really
@sargoth counteroffer: you don't have to run accounts on many instances exactly so your readers could read just one. Same way as I don't tell everyone all of my emails.
@sargoth why do they need to follow you from all their instances?