@animeirl gnu social is the safari 5
(birdsite link) https://twitter.com/wilnyl/status/854339707337093121
when you spin up a new mastodon instance
@Jesus hello
@InspectorCaracal sounds about right iirc
so: how do mentions get sent to another instance
like, i know
1. it runs a webfinger on the user mentioned
2. it takes the data and ???
3. ???
4. federation
@InspectorCaracal it actually doesn't check it regularly, it just federates that one post afais
@ffz yeah no the instance im on is like federated timeline is just the 3rd degree out of my follows
@lutoma YOU NEVER LEFT MASTODON
YOU WERE HERE ALL ALONG
@dcl hurgh, gnu social codebase
@bug the curse of the mummy was just someone realizing this was fucked up and trying to tell a story thatd stop people from doing this shit
@soft_chomps if a remote user followed by a local user replies to another remote user's post it gets federated
@codl honestly i just usually reply with a direct
i will no longer be on computerfairi.es
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