Eugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
When recommending to your friends, give the other instances some love too: https://instances.mastodon.xyz/ It looks like mastodon.social is under even heavier load than yesterday right now
Show threadNolanApr 3, 2017
@Gargron I'd love to hop on mastodon.xyz but it seems like you see different replies if you're on the main instance vs the other ones. 😕 https://mastodon.social/@Murassa/1474784
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
@nolan @Murassa The instance of the original poster receives all replies directed to it. Other instances receive only those replies that they would normally receive from following the authors, i.e. original poster's instance does not redistribute replies to its post. I don't see how it's a problem: original author sees all replies, if you get mentioned, you receive that also. You're only missing out on stuff that doesn't affect you much.
Show threadNolan
@Gargron @Murassa Wouldn't this discourage people from joining non-Mastodon.social instances though? You're missing out on what the vast bulk of other users are seeing.
Apr 3, 2017 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
@nolan @Murassa I don't see how. As more people follow each other, the number of missing stuff on each individual instance goes down.
Show threadNolanApr 3, 2017
@Gargron @Murassa I dunno, that may work in a world where multiple instances have roughly the same number of users, but today there's essentially a huge UX improvement by being on mastodon.social because that way you see the full conversation… 😕