So I saw a post just now that I deem as a bit dumb and I was shocked to see 13 boosts and only 1 reply so I thought to myself: Why Nobody critizing this shi? Then I clicked on the post on the original instance and there was Like 10+ replies critizing that post… Why is That? Is it the fault of my instance? Or Is it just some mastodon bs?
Side Info: Yes The people who replied are federated and I can Look up Their profile on my instance
Federation on Mastodon is weird. Some information only federates if local users follow an account. Supposedly this is designed to be more lightweight on more limited servers.
It works the same on Lemmy, it’s just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.
Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.