@occhiolist well, in my experience, you can only see the replies from servers your server federates with. For me that’s kinda broken because it can look like no one responded to something (this could be happening right now!), so I respond, but the original poster gets a deluge of these sorts of replies from people who just don’t realize that a million others have already said the same thing.
Not sure if that’s what @thomasfuchs is talking about, but it’s on my mind
@b_cavello @occhiolist yes, exactly
Basically if you are on server A and reply to someone in server B, someone one server C can only see your reply if server C is also talking to server A (which is only the case if someone from server C follows someone on A).
It’s astounding that this hasn’t been addressed.
Literally the most important social media feature, talking to each other, is deeply broken.
@thomasfuchs @b_cavello @occhiolist@hachyderm.io
I am reporting this since Mastodon adopted ActivityPub.
@matrix is way better but people believe it's just for instant messaging. In reality it can be used for anything and it provides unique awesome features for anything implemented on top of it.
It is way more complex to implement but this is what libraries are for and if AP had to address those issues it would end up being something like Matrix anyway.
So please let's discuss how to move from AP to Matrix as it happened with OStatus->AP some years ago.
