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   marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 01:44:53 JST marius

   • BeAware :fediverse:

   @BeAware I think you misunderstand the problem. The ActivityPub specification encourages implementations to expose a followers/following collections on actors. Those collections have a TotalItems property in them which should allow anyone to see the count.

   Here's an example.

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     marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 01:57:57 JST marius

     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware federating between instances should have nothing to do with it.

     Dan is presenting a feature where a user views another profile and then they can see mutuals. This can be done if Mastodon would load *all* the information (including follower list) about the profile when you view it from your own instance, instead of relying only on data that has been previously federated.

     It's a *trivial* feature that Mastodon is lacking, and I feel like that's what the toot you quoted complains about.