Gregory's Serverit is similar to how most forums work, the only difference being that these servers are self-hosted, which may be good or bad depending on who you are and how you look at the overall prospect of an open source solution to social media
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@beyond9thousand For example when I look at my recent followers follow list, and it says 30 posts I can only see those that talk to the specific server/instance I've joined. In my case, mastodon.online. So it shows like 2 posts out of the total of 30. It is the same across all activity of a specific user. Fortunately there is a way to see all posts/follows/followers by just opening up the profile on the instance that user is part of. 2/3 @beyond9thousand As an example you can go to my profile via mastodon.online/@KowloonGhost in your browser and see all of my activity. Unfortunately if a users profile is private there is no way to see all of their activity unless you are also separately a member of the same instance they are on. That's the nature of totally decentralized social media tho. It would be nice if you could centralize that one very thing. 3/3 this bit is actually important as it preserves your privacy up to a certain extent (albeit weird, but understandable) |
@beyond9thousand One potential negative is that if you're trying to look up a followers posts and follows/followers. Not all instances/servers directly talk to each other directly so while you can see the number of posts/follows, etc, you may not necessarily be able to view the actual content. 1/3