It seems like to get my followed-notificationsed friends' toots, I have to visit their instance, find the new toot, whose hashtags I'm also following, copy that url, then search for it on my instance.
Was it always like this? Am I doing something wrong? I don't want to accidentally-part-ways with a bunch of people in different time zones to me.
If there's anything I can do to help test let me know.
part 1
The way mastodon works is by caching posts from people you're following. So when you search on someone's profile who is not on Gamer+ those posts won't be cached. That's why you have to visit their site.
Which is not a problem. On my system it opens in a new window so I close it when I'm done. On my phone it goes to their server so I go back when I'm done.
I think you got it. And some servers make that last bit a little easier by letting you type gamerplus.org when you want to boost a post instead of having to search on a link.
This is the only way activity pub can work. No private server can provide all mastodon posts. But they can cache the posts of people you follow.
part 2
If you want to boost one of their posts there are two ways depending on the server you're visiting.
Either copy the link and switch back over to the Gamer+ server to bring that post in to be boosted.
Or it will have a field where you enter gamerplus.org and then open a window for you on Gamer+ where you can just click boost.
If you follow the person then Gamer+ will start caching their posts and you won't see the link to their server.
Peeps. Please correct or clarify.
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