Hey all. Love federation, think it might play a big role in saving society (unless we destroy it by way of climate change).
2 question about the federation here
1: The fact that I only see a tiny fraction of the toots of people on other Mastodon instances is surely a bug that will be fixed soon, right? It's not meant to be this way?
2: It's possible to follow other social networks using GNU Social, not just Mastodon instances, right?
Thanks! :)
@forteller Hi. Welcome to the party! o/
My best educated guesses:
1.) Sometimes the queue clogs. Time solves this. Connections also need to be established among different nodes, and I think this may impact your TL. If other users on your instance are not connected to any users on others, it might not show anything. Also, other instances could be blacklisted. Depends on instance's policy.
@forteller
2.) Not sure what the current status of that is, but think it should be possible. Basically uses OStatus.