Just want to put into context the "copy and paste" trick on the Fediverse:
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Just to put into context the "copy & paste" trick on the Fediverse:
- If your server has already noticed an account or post, you can search for it and interact with it totally normally without any copy-pasting.
- If your server *hasn't* noticed an account or post but you know it exists, you can make your server notice it by copy-pasting the account or post address into your server's search box.
Copy-pasting is just meant as a last resort for stuff your server hasn't noticed yet.
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Just to put into context the "copy & paste" trick on the Fediverse:
- If your server has already noticed an account or post, you can search for it and interact with it totally normally without any copy-pasting.
- If your server *hasn't* noticed an account or post but you know it exists, you can make your server notice it by copy-pasting the account or post address into your server's search box.
Copy-pasting is just meant as a last resort for stuff your server hasn't noticed yet.
"Copy-pasting is just meant as a last resort for stuff your server hasn't noticed yet."
So a "last resort" needed for the vast majority of the fediverse? I'm happy staying in my bubble, after all I chose it, but I know it's a tiny corner of the fediverse.
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Just to put into context the "copy & paste" trick on the Fediverse:
- If your server has already noticed an account or post, you can search for it and interact with it totally normally without any copy-pasting.
- If your server *hasn't* noticed an account or post but you know it exists, you can make your server notice it by copy-pasting the account or post address into your server's search box.
Copy-pasting is just meant as a last resort for stuff your server hasn't noticed yet.
@FediTips I'm a little bit confused what this means. You mean if an account simply doesn't show up at all and you have to click "view original" to see it?
But if you don't even see messages, how do you know to check for them?
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@FediTips I'm a little bit confused what this means. You mean if an account simply doesn't show up at all and you have to click "view original" to see it?
But if you don't even see messages, how do you know to check for them?
If you try searching for an account but you can't find it, you can copy-paste its address into the search box to make it appear on your server. You can then follow it and its posts will start showing up on your server.
For example, this is how people can use my other site https://fedi.directory to discover accounts their server hasn't noticed yet.
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"Copy-pasting is just meant as a last resort for stuff your server hasn't noticed yet."
So a "last resort" needed for the vast majority of the fediverse? I'm happy staying in my bubble, after all I chose it, but I know it's a tiny corner of the fediverse.
I've done an article about this here:
TL:DR - If every server had every post ever made by every account, the costs would be so huge that only big tech companies would be able to afford to run servers.
But even if you did have big tech companies running servers, they tend to create much nastier bubbles through opaque manipulative algorithms.
The idea of the Fediverse is to create a grassroots social network owned and controlled by ordinary people.
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I've done an article about this here:
TL:DR - If every server had every post ever made by every account, the costs would be so huge that only big tech companies would be able to afford to run servers.
But even if you did have big tech companies running servers, they tend to create much nastier bubbles through opaque manipulative algorithms.
The idea of the Fediverse is to create a grassroots social network owned and controlled by ordinary people.
@FediTips I already knew the reasons the fediverse does it this way. My earlier comment was more about the specific phrasing "last resort", which makes it sound like you only rarely need to paste.
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@FediTips I already knew the reasons the fediverse does it this way. My earlier comment was more about the specific phrasing "last resort", which makes it sound like you only rarely need to paste.
Ahhh okay. I just used that phrase as some people had assumed the copy-paste was the primary way of following people. Some people think it's designed to require that.
I was trying to get across that the primary way of following people is clicking their profile and clicking "follow" like on any other social network.
