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.
@forteller On following people from GNU Social: https://karp.id.au/social/en/user/exploring.html#remote-follow
Same steps work for Mastodon instances.
@bvtsang That's great! Seeing quitter.no in that example I wonder if I can import my old posts from Identi.ca in here… That would be awesome!
@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
@forteller @bvtsang @tfj @tim accounts only begin existing to your server when someone follows them
@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 @sonya @yoz @tfj @tim Sorry I don't know, but I would guess it has something to do with mastodon.social being under heavy load and queues being clogged up
@forteller In short, if you want to see more toots from people from other instances, follow people from other instances and then everyone from your instance will see them as well.