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so "funny" (sic) how fractured and broken the fediverse is
i see a question posted on the federated timeline by a random person, decide to answer it
i look at their post on their remote instance, my answer is nowhere to be seen. other people's replies with the same answer are there.
in my own instance there are no replies other than my own. a person who isn't the OP or the other repliers favourites my answer.
the OP probably never saw my reply.
@mavica_again not seeing other replies on your instance is "normal" but that your reply hasn't arrived indicates some problem and usually doesn't happen... maybe intentional defederation or just a network failure
@mavica_again Hmm, I guess it’s ambiguous from the ActivityPub/ActivityStreams spec whether your instance should post your message into the inboxes of those you‘re replying to or mentioning in your post.
I hope this is one of the use cases that the Mastodon group is covering in their “fetch all replies” feature…