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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 04:08:39 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   If you know someone is on the Fediverse but you can't find their account by searching, ask them for their account address and paste this into the search box. Their account profile will then appear automatically, and you can follow them there. More details about how to do this:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address/

   (When an account is very new, and/or it hasn't posted very much, it may not have been noticed by your server, and that means it won't show up in searches on your server.)

   #FediTips

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 05:05:42 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • Markus Werle

     @markuswerle

     As far as I know the only ways you could have everyone's name searchable on a decentralised federated system are either:

     A central directory service, but that would require centralisation which is what the Fediverse is created to avoid. Someone might take the directory over.

     or

     Every server having all the details of everyone from every other server, but that would be prohibitively expensive and put people off starting servers. (Also, most of the data would never be used.)

   • Markus Werle (markuswerle@nrw.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 05:05:43 JST Markus Werle

     in reply to

     @feditips This sounds more like a #fedifailure than a #feditip.