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 The way the federated timeline works is that it's essentially the combined Home timelines of everyone from your instance.
For example, the federated timeline on octodon.social is the combined Home timelines of everyone on octodon.social. Your Home timeline consists of people you follow, from both octodon.social and other instances.
And yes, it's possible to follow people from other, non-Mastodon instances.
@bvtsang @tim Thanks for the replies! But this doesn't seem quite right from my experience here. For example, when I look at the profile @tfj here on my Octodon tootsuite I only see 11 toots, but in reality he's actually got 361. And there's plenty more examples like that. https://octodon.social/media/HEEfIxFUDVFWtNjDULw
@sonya @bvtsang @tfj @tim Ok, then I understand better. I still feel like that is an issue that should be addressed, though.
But there's something that still doesn't make sense: Why do I see the first 4 toots in @yoz's thread to Twitter users, and not the last? Shouldn't it rather be the other way around then?
@forteller @bvtsang @tfj @tim accounts only begin existing to your server when someone follows them