Nolan LawsonApr 8, 2017

PSA: if you see a remote toot and think "wow that is an amazing toot, why does it have 0 favs/boosts/replies"? It probably doesn't. It's just that nobody from this instance follows someone who fav'ed/boosted/replied to it.

One thing I found useful is to just eagerly follow people you see in the Federated timeline saying stuff you like. You can always unfollow/block later.

The Masto experience gets fleshed out the more you use an instance. Keep in mind toot.cafe is 4 days old. 😄

Show threadRazApr 8, 2017
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Mastotip: You can click on the time of the post to open it on the posters instance and thus see everything they see. This also makes you see the whole thread so you don't miss out on replies.
Show thread(Axel Rauschmayer—OLD)Apr 8, 2017
@pajn @nolan I wish that’s what the UI did…
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@rauschma @pajn I believe there are technical reasons it doesn't. If my URL bar says toot.cafe, I'm getting data from toot.cafe server, which hasn't started "following" those people yet. Hence the need to switch context.

OTOH this may be fixable presuming CORS is set up on the remote site and the local frontend can just fetch fresh data from the remote server, but I'm not sure.

Apr 8, 2017 at 3:04pmWeb
Show thread(Axel Rauschmayer—OLD)Apr 8, 2017
@nolan @pajn Naively, I’d assume that this should be easy to fix, given that there is a single source of information that you can check for a timestamp or similar.