Where is the #fedihelp when I need it?
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RE: https://venner.network/@abekonge/116685940195937212
Where is the #fedihelp when I need it? #pixelfed #fediverse #help
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RE: https://venner.network/@abekonge/116685940195937212
Where is the #fedihelp when I need it? #pixelfed #fediverse #help
@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 -
@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@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?
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@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?
@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
