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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:54:47 JST Tim Chambers

   • Andy Piper

   @shitpostalotl @andypiper Does that even work? (Still I did it)

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     Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 20:35:43 JST Andy Piper

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     @tchambers @shitpostalotl in principle it should (!) mean that it will be delivered to instances with users that follow me, and they thus become aware of that single-user instance. Also, there is a cat.

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     Mike Bell (mike@rebel-lion.uk)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 05:38:48 JST Mike Bell

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     • Andy Piper

     @andypiper @tchambers @shitpostalotl As far as I'm aware, at a technical level whether an instance is aware of another instance doesn't change anything. No more posts get exchanged that would or wouldn't otherwise get exchanged. Though maybe an admin will notice the new server and check if they should block it.

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     Tristan Harward (trisweb@m.trisweb.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 10:03:21 JST Tristan Harward

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     • Andy Piper
     • Mike Bell

     @mike @andypiper @tchambers @shitpostalotl yep this is mostly correct via my experience on a single-user server. Following matters the most, but others’ boosts do cause those specific users and messages to be pulled in, so a nice side effect when looking at a user with no follow relationship is I can see the posts that my server got by whatever means, which means there was some activity I can go on.

     Overall, fine-grained controls on federation, and especially controlling moderate proactive fetching of posts and content, is IMO one of the best opportunities to improve Mastodon.

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     Mike Bell (mike@rebel-lion.uk)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 10:03:23 JST Mike Bell

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     • Andy Piper

     @andypiper @tchambers @shitpostalotl However, making a popular post with a cat helps you get follows, and if you do that it obviously does help your subsequent posts get distributed to other servers. If you don't have any followers on a server then when someone on that server looks at your profile it will be mostly empty, which means you look like a user that doesn't post anything. More experienced users know they should open your profile on your own server to see your activity.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.