When you follow someone, you will see any future posts from them in your Home feed. You can follow people across the fediverse. That is, Pixelfed users on your own server, on other PF servers, but also accounts on any server (e.g. Mastodon) on the fediverse.

Note: If you follow a non-pixelfed user you will ONLY see their posts which contain images. If it is a text only post you will not see it in your Home feed.

If you see a post in one of your timelines, hover your mouse on the users account name at the top of the post. Click the blue follow button to add them to your followers. They will be notified that you have started following them.

If you hover over the account, and you are already following them, you will see a button saying “Following”. If you click this you will then unfollow the account. The user will NOT be told you have stopped following them.

If you know a user's account name on the fediverse, type it in the Search bar at the top of any page. Press the enter key to validate the name and then click the account for a summary. You can then click the blue follow button. The user will be informed that you have started following them.

You can search using the account ID, or web address on their server.

Example:

• @bumble@pixelfed.scot
• https://pixelfed.scot/@bumble