Notices by Steven Lang (slang@fediscience.org)

@feditips @NivReggev thanks for chiming in and explaining what’s going on. This is actually quite unintuitive for new users. I thought that only the servers store their users and toots from these users. But apparently that’s not the case and there is some form of content fetch between servers instead of server <-> client.

So in the end I “just” need to wait longer until someone from my server has boosted a toot from a user I’m interested in such that I can see that toot?

„It actually doesn’t matter which mastodon server you choose“

How am I supposed to explore a specific Mastodon community (AI/ML in my case) if I’m not allowed to see follows and followers of users from another mastodon server/instance?

And why is it, that I only see a subset of posts of a user from another server? See screenshots of @yaringal where it says „13 posts“ in the user info but I can actually only see a single post and a single post-reply he has made. Does this have something to do with the fact, that he is on a different server or is this a bug?

@NivReggev interesting, it seems to be “working as intended” then. Weird choice though as this make, as you also mentioned, exploring a community across servers almost impossible without a lot of effort.

On top of that, this still doesn’t explain why I only see a certain subset of the users posts? Do you have any clue about this?

@NivReggev how did users of my specific instance explore those toots in the first place then if I’m not able to see them?

I actually started at mastodon.social and saw that it’s under heavy load, then following @feditips recent toot and moved to another instance.