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   Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 06:27:11 JST Negative12DollarBill

   I have a pretty big Mastodon question/problem.

   I'm trying to link someone who doesn't have an account to this thread:

   https://techhub.social/@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com/110753630156713990

   which contains an image for each country in the world.

   I can see it at that URL.

   But when I go to that thread in Incognito/a browser where I'm not logged in, I get redirected to this URL:

   https://universeodon.com/@LadyDragonfly/110753630154110925

   which cuts off after Brunei.

   What's happening, how can I stop it, and how can I share that full thread with someone not on Mastodon?

   This is kind of a blow to my evangelism.

   #Fediverse #Mastodon

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 06:27:10 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @negative12dollarbill

     The actual thread is at the second address in your post, the first address is a redirect.

     If you click on the Brunei post to enlarge it, it shows you the rest of the thread.

     I don't know why Mastodon is behaving like that instead of showing the whole thread from the main link, presumably some kind of freak bug?

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     Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 06:27:11 JST Negative12DollarBill

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     @feditips perhaps you have some insight?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:25:54 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @negative12dollarbill

     I don't think it's intentional, it's an odd way of doing it if it is.

     The logged in or logged out isn't the issue, it's about which server you're viewing. The first link is a view from your server, the second link is a view from the server that the thread starter is on.

     Different servers have different views of the Fediverse for very good reasons. If you're interested, there are details here:

     https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server/

     and

     https://fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastodon-and-fediverse-posts-and-accounts-automatically-visible-from-all-servers/

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     Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:25:55 JST Negative12DollarBill

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     • FediTips has moved!

     @feditips
     Maybe it’s intentional — to start showing some replies after 20-odd posts in a thread? To show replies after 10% of the thread? To show replies as soon as they start showing up?

     But the fact that there is

     • a radically different view for the logged in and the non-logged-in user, and
     • no obvious affordance to let the non-logged in user see the rest of the thread

     is a major bug, I feel.