One Mastodon frustration is when I visit the profile of a user that's hosted on a different instance and under their Posts it says: "Older posts from other servers are not displayed."
Then I click through to the profile page on their instance and see several posts from the current day.
I need to learn more about Mastodon's architecture to understand why that's happening, but as an end user it's annoying.
@adamhorne I think I'm starting to wrap my head around how posts get pushed between different Mastodon instances.
As soon as someone from twit.social follows a user on another instance, that user's *new* posts get pushed into twit.social's DB. But that user's older posts will never get imported unless there is some specific action on one of those posts. For example, if a twit.social user faves or boosts an older post from that non-twit.social user, it'll be imported to twit.social's DB.
Travis
Adam Horne