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Are the federation problems fixed? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A long time ago, I had a mstdn.social account and was trying to view a friend's content on like mastodon.art. I couldn't see his content via mstdn.social at all, but I could if I just went to mastodon.art. Mastodon.art was not in the list of servers mstdn.social did not federate with. I assumed this was a glitch.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

It's not a glitch, it's just how Mastodon works in order to protect the users and limit how much information a server can have. It sucks, but people like it 🤷

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Huh? If I manage to get my friends to sign up, we should all sign up on the same instance? Aka we should all use mastodon.social because since that's the biggest instance, if I eventually meet someone who already has a mastodon account, they're prob on mastodon.social.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

You should not use mastodon.social "because it is the largest instance". The Fediverse was not designed to "join the largest instance". Instead, go to https://instances.social/ and find something that meets your criteria :)

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