What actually happens when posting to a microblog?

Where does it end up and who can see it? Do they get federated?

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Anyone who follows you across the fediverse can see the post
- So people have to explicitly follow me to see the post? It doesn't show up on feed like mastodons?
  
  It’s more nuanced than that. If they look at your profile from a mastodon/etc instance, they’ll see the post. If they are on an instance that has someone who follows you and watch the federated/globel feed, they’ll see the post. And a few other specific situations.