Notices by Mike Bell (mike@rebel-lion.uk)

@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.

@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.