<![CDATA[Where is the #fedihelp when I need it?]]>RE: https://venner.network/@abekonge/116685940195937212

Where is the when I need it?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/f4273866-1776-4b6f-8558-2407d60254d9/where-is-the-fedihelp-when-i-need-itRSS for NodeSat, 20 Jun 2026 01:36:28 GMTFri, 05 Jun 2026 21:04:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Where is the #fedihelp when I need it? on Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:15:45 GMT]]>@abekonge I believe that is by design for performance and privacy reasons.

Because retrieving list of, say, 50-100K users would put a strain on any server, not just yours but also the remote server serving the list, even if the output is cached beforehand (as it should be).

Currently, when you use the public facing API of Mastodon to query account info, you get not just basic info, but *all* publicly available information about the user in question, so there's a lot of data being passed around even to do just a simple profile lookup.

Privacywise, a full user list is a delicious treat for a data-harvesting web crawler

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.dk/users/simonjust/statuses/116765159931028009https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.dk/users/simonjust/statuses/116765159931028009Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:15:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Where is the #fedihelp when I need it? on Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:20:06 GMT]]>@simonjust that is not the problem here - we follow plenty on other servers - but when I want to see someone on e.g. the pixelfed.social server I cannot see their followers .... is say 1 followers for e.g. @dansup - but dansup has 100K followers - the one follower I can see is myself on my own server. This really makes federation non-functional - and discovery of interesting stuff hard. But I don't know if it is by design or if we doing something wrong?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://venner.network/users/abekonge/statuses/116764465938307414https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://venner.network/users/abekonge/statuses/116764465938307414Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:20:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Where is the #fedihelp when I need it? on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:35:11 GMT]]>@abekonge afaik, your server will only start federating with others once you start following people from other instances

As mentioned in this thread:
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/4472

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.dk/users/simonjust/statuses/116699630178182544https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.dk/users/simonjust/statuses/116699630178182544Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:35:11 GMT