Space Catitude 🚀
@TerryHancock@realsocial.life
@gbargoud@masto.nyc @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @blogdiva@mastodon.social
Yes, this is something I noticed when investigating my followers list -- if I don't follow them back and there's no one on my instance who does, either, then they start showing up as "inactive" -- even though clicking through, it's clear that they are still very active.
My instance no longer has any reason to retrieve their posts, see?
So I don't see them.
Same thing with hashtags, I think.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. I guess I could follow a lot more people. But if I do, I'll probably have to make more use of lists to curate my home feed.
Federation does not always do what I think it does. 🤷♂️
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@TerryHancock@realsocial.life @gbargoud@masto.nyc @blogdiva@mastodon.social
The idea of the Fediverse is that running costs are low enough for anyone to start their own instance, so it has to be selective about what it federates.
If you want to increase your instance's view of the Fediverse more quickly, there's a list of suggestions at https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse
If admins want to increase posts visible for a particular hashtag, they can use https://relay.fedi.buzz
Also, here's a list of what gets federated: https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server/