If you have a Nodebb instance and want World posts to include a certain topic, lets say on electric cars. If you follow people that are into electric cars then that happens.

(1) I cant seem to search on a topic in nodebb World. So the way Ive been expanding the World, is by going to mastodon, searching topic, either by tag or by name. Then if I see an interesting profile, I reply to one of their posts with cc’ing in my nodebb account. Then their post comes up in World on nodebb, and I can follow the author. Hence this is a lot of moving around to follow people who are into a certain topic.

Is there a faster way? E.g. is there a method to type a topic in nodebb World, and see relevant posts or people there, and follow them immediately?

(2) When I follow someone from a Mastodon site, I seem to be following a clone of their account. I.e. account created 8 Nov 2022, 00:00, 1 post. Not their mastodon profile with many posts and followers