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Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 01:21:19

For better or worse, I’m on a Mastodon server by myself. And I have a couple Masto tech
questions!

1. Is it normal to never see how many favs someone’s post has? It’s always zero. (I miss that, it’s nice to see what resonates with people.)
2. I also sometimes don’t see all (most?) of the replies on someone’s tweet. Also normal? What dictates the ones I see?

Sorry to use you for tech support

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 01:34:37

@cabel The solution is essentially to be on a large server, your server isn’t pulling in anything from servers where you don’t follow anyone.

That’s by design—and it’s a terrible design.

I suspect the people who made the underlying protocol aren’t very social.

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 09:18:23

@thomasfuchs This is more of a performance problem than a choice. Distributing those to every server would increase the server-to-server trafic by a lot.
@cabel

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 08:06:41

@cabel yes that’s normal but it’s indeed a bad experience that’s why we fixed it in mammoth - which will show you engagement metrics in your timeline. ;)

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Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 09:19:21

@ploink @cabel How did you fix it? Are you sending requests to the originating instance to get up-to-date statistics?

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 09:55:21

@renchap @cabel yes triggered by any sort of deceleration on the timeline scroll. Still need to add a slick animation to it. But it’s gets the job done.

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 10:15:47

@ploink An issue with this is that you are leaking private data (the user's IP) to instances they did not choose to have an account on.

@cabel

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 10:46:43

@renchap @cabel I’m not an engineer maybe I’m not explaining it correctly. Would be a good thing for masto to fix.

Föderation EN Sa 10.02.2024 09:17:09

@cabel This article explains is very clearly, this all stems down from ActivityPub being a federated protocol, and you server only has a partial view of things: seb.jambor.dev/posts/understan