fediverse
Is it true that an instance on which a post appears can't 'see' all the posts that are made in reply to that post?
Re: complaints I see about getting the same reply over and over again on Mastodon. Just trying to understand why this dynamic is more a problem here than on centralized platforms. Is defederation the issue? Or chronological ordering? Or...?
fediverse
Probably yes, depending on exactly the sort of case you're referring to.
If it helps: posts don't live on the origin instance. They are broadcast to other instances, and basically every reply is a brand new post, with a reference to the old post, that also gets broadcast to other instances.
Checking out the standard, though, it leaves it optional ("may") for clients to notify the origin instance that there was a reply.
At least, if I read it right.
