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   Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 07:57:32 JST Jer Warren

   I thought I understood the general wonkiness of the fediverse replies situation, but clearly not.
   
   On my instance's version of a thread, there are way more replies than if I visit the remote instance on which the thread originated. Is this because I'm not logged into the instance where the thread originated, and I'm just seeing an old not-updated version of the page?
   
   I would expect the thread source to have more than a remote does...

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 07:57:23 JST clacke

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     @nyquildotorg If non-Mastodon people like a comment, that comment federates to their followers too. Only Mastodon has the quirk that likes are secret except to the originating server.
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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 07:57:25 JST Jer Warren

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     OK, I've since seen a couple people I do follow boosting some of the replies from other instances. So I guess it's more likely that people on this instance follow people who boosted posts from another instance that never even appeared on the originating post's instance 🤷

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 07:57:27 JST Jer Warren

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     My Firefish instance has a whopping 104 users. I'm not saying it's impossible that there are people on my instance following all the users whose replies appear here but not on the original Mastodon post, but it seems really unlikely. And it's not even like it's all 60 Mastodon posts showing here and there's 27 "extra" ones, it's just like completely different pools of replies without a lot of overlap.

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 07:57:30 JST Jer Warren

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     This thread from Ian Coldwater on Hachyderm is the one I'm talking about: https://hachyderm.io/@ian/111098333623392670
     
     Visiting that page right now, I count 60 replies. Viewing that same page on my Firefish instance, I see 87 replies.
     
     If the issue is that Hachyderm (or Ian) blocks those instances (or users), then replies from them not appearing on the Hachyderm page for that post makes sense.
     
     But what doesn't, is that in order for me to be seeing them here, my instance needs to already have a following relationship with them, right?
     
     Or do replies that Hachyderm has decided not to accept still get federated out from there?

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     Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 12:16:55 JST Jer Warren

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     complicating things even further, one of the replies on my instance is from someone on the same instance as Ian, and that reply does not show up on Ian's instance's version of that thread.

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