Do not trust the date of the posts, the admin of the instance can edit the date of a post for funsies. Sometimes people do this kind of stuff to pretend that a post is really old
speaking of dates whats up with it being m/d/yy is that like a personal problem of mine or just normal
@gabboman wait how the fuck do you do this i wanna try too
@mew first you have to make your own fediverse software

@gabboman Same with all info. Follower count, following count, post count, like counts, whatever. It's all very easily faked.

I find it makes it easier to judge, cause I know every single post can fake any metric, so I have to take the content for what the content is.

@markus I went to your profile expecting to see 9 quadrillion followers after you said that :(
@gabboman :( I used to have one, but I shut that instance down
@gabboman even more of a giveaway this post still shows as date '23 Jun, 1970' when posts I see should show elapsed time (how old it is) instead.
@marjolica mastodon issue
@gabboman but *this* post, unlike the faked time one, shows 10 minutes elapsed.

@marjolica I do not control the speed of lobsters how mastodon displays my post to that detail.

But im pretty sure that is because the date is REALY old. I think the fact of the post being older than me and older than mastodon is obvious.

Still there are lots of things that activitypub can be funked with

@gabboman for instances that support the mastodon API you don't even need admin do you
@leo unsure to be honest. wafrn does not use mastoapi
@gabboman
That's why we at ActivityChain ™️ provide blockchain-style checksums for your posts.
We give you the assurance to up your influencer game.
Call us or drop us a "toot".
@gabboman Really disappointed that there is no reply from the year 4242 yet.
@gabboman
This reminds me of the "Evelyn Evelyn" project (by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley). Many opportunities were taken to bring in the number 11, including the official Myspace profile which had a friend count locked at 11111. It was obviously fake, but part of the joke.
@gabboman see my join date…
@gabboman I also recreated the twitter history of @ApplesauceFluxes here with way more effort than it was probably worth.