Hey all. Love federation, think it might play a big role in saving society (unless we destroy it by way of climate change).

2 question about the federation here

1: The fact that I only see a tiny fraction of the toots of people on other Mastodon instances is surely a bug that will be fixed soon, right? It's not meant to be this way?

2: It's possible to follow other social networks using GNU Social, not just Mastodon instances, right?

Thanks! :)

@forteller
1) Inter-instance communication is pretty much black magic. It's sort of well defined in the OStatus spec, but Mastodon doesn't entirely comply with that.
2) Yup.

@raffitz What? What's the point of standards if people just comply halfheartedly? :/