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Can someone point me to a good technical 101 for Mastodon? Or OStatus? Trying to understand: When I make a post, how does another instance find out about it to show to my followers there or the federated timeline?
@benhamill The best advice I can give is to comb trough related issues on github, or just read the protocol specification. https://ostatus.github.io/spec/OStatus%201.0%20Draft%202.html
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Someone on irc might be able to help... irc.freenode.net#mastodon
@NthTensor Yaaaaaas. That shown is probably what I need. Thanks!
@benhamill That wont cover all of it. I am still working through the related reading. https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Specs-and-RFCs-used.md
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If I am right, and I am likely not, salmon handles the actual updating of the other servers.
http://www.salmon-protocol.org/