[slindsey]

Based on my mastodon experience, it's a little more nuanced than that. You are on a server (not the star trek one). Someone on your server needs to follow stuff on that star trek server for it to show up on your server. So if your community is mostly about fishing and no one likes star trek but you, you'll never see it unless you go looking for it.

[Izkata]

What? That sounds like a great way to pollute the tightly focused fishing server... There's got to be something more to it, right?