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@Habnab made a userscript for reply collapsing https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468449-kbin-collapsible-comments
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Kind of, any type of interaction between instances (even for example, if someone on instance A boosts a post by someone on instance B, and someone on instance C follows the person on instance A (or instance A is already federated with). Then boom, both instances now federate with each other)
If it’s too hard for you to click a “join a different instance/server” button and select any that’s available, then I just don’t know what to tell you. It’s not that it’s confusing, people just got extremely lazy when all they have to do is open of the 5 mega-platforms like Twitter and Reddit to access everything.
Firefox, LibreTube, Kaiteki