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  • Draconic NEO@pawb.socialOPtofurry_irl@pawb.socialdragon_irl
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    17 days ago

    I’d say they do, they are two different posts after all, even if they might share the same image link. Though if you want to be sure, you can always just use different image uploads for each one, though using the same link gives better post visibility, and therefore higher likelihood of an additional repost.
















  • In my opinion the problem is the idea of connectedness is way oversold, to the point where some people believe the Fediverse is something it isn’t, a decentralized “free speech” network. There are projects like that, Nostr is a great example I can think of, but they are notoriously unmoderated and therefore not condusive to the kind of discussions and content seen here or even on mainstream social media. You need moderation or else the intolerant will drive all the nice people away. Since anyone can start a server there needs to be control over federation otherwise the timeline would be flooded with bigoted shit, spambots, gore, and unmarked-NSFW.

    Mastodon not fetching a user’s old posts when you first follow them is also a huge annoyance if you’re using a smaller server.

    I did find that is quite annoying and I definitely feel like that should be fixed somehow, like give the option to fetch their older posts.

    I managed to do it by finding a server which had them, following my account on that server, then boosing them in chronological order, and shortly unboosting them after. That push federates the content onto the server, but you need another account on an adjacent server or in worst case, the original one to do that, and it might not make people too happy (the people on dragonchat.org are cool but you might not have the same experience on other servers).