The most unfortunate feature of Mastodon is that you can't see many posts outside of the instance that you're on. Not such a big deal if you're on mastodon.social with most of the other people, but it's brutal if you're elsewhere. Possibly a value-killer. GnuSocial seems to handle this better? I'm not certain about the parameters of the behavior in either case. @Gargron

@sonya Let me assure you that it is no different on GNU social. It's just that most older nodes have high populations that follow lots of other people from other nodes.

In fact, Mastodon does MORE than GNU social, because Mastodon recursively resolves threads it comes across [upwards].

@Gargron Are you implying that messages only get federated to timeline if someone on that server is following them?
@kodo Yep
@Gargron I'm surprised it doesn't federate all messages from that server, is it a performance thing?