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User discovery on Mastodon is still a problem.

It's made worse by the "following" link on user cards, which, when the user is on a different instance, only shows users on your own instance. This may make sense technically, but it is bad for users.

Not only is this not intuitive behaviour (there is no indication the list is not complete), it also makes it harder for Mastodon users to find each other, ultimately hurting teh platform.

Let's figure out how to fix this problem.