Post by @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

2026-11-09 18:53 UTC

Okay, this is perhaps very nerdy, but it might interest you if you've wondered how Mastodon servers notice accounts and posts from other servers. I've tried to do a list of all the scenarios where accounts and posts are noticed by your server: ➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-posts-and-accounts-can-i-see-from-my-server The guide also answers questions about why it works like this, and why it doesn't just show all posts from all servers. #FediTips #Mastodon

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@wavesculptor@climatejustice.social 2026-11-09 19:56

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services reading your full page would seem to suggest that if you have quite a tolerant view of what instances are generally acceptable and outside that are happy to do lots of DIY blocking/filtering, a LARGE user-base instance actually has a significant advantages to a user? Contrary to the general suggestion of "stay small and locale/interest specific". [edit] -- I'm specifically curious about how posts with tags proliferate, as I follow a great number, but relatively few actual accounts. I don't remember you mentioning them in that discovery page. If #hashtags aren't getting discovered and proliferated from unknown accounts and servers, in the same way as accounts, this would also be an issue.

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