Pixelfed - I'm Confused About Some Details ...
Pixelfed - I'm Confused About Some Details ...
A while ago joined Pixelfed, and some things really confuse me ...
1.) Licenses ... on my older posts, the Image shows a content license (like, CC BY-NC-SA), but not on newer ones ... there doesn't seem to be a way to specify a license, or is there?
2.) Followers ... some friends joined on other instances, and we followed each other ... when I click their profile from MY instance, then I see only myself (seems like they don't have any other followers on that instance).
If I visit their profile on THEIR instance, I can see they have more followers, but I can't see the details without logging in (and the account from my instance doesn't work).
Is that by design?
I can't even see their profile picture from my instance ... my posts seem to show up in their feed though ...
3.) I'm using the official app, but I can only see my most recent posts ... I made a few posts about a year ago and they don't show up ...
Can someone enlighten me here?
Hmm ok ... the servers are both pretty large so I assume they should be well-federated (if that's the right term).
But that flaw kinda means that effectively, information trickles through unpredictably and what you see is quite dependent on which instance you're on ... is that understanding correct?
Yes, that is correct. Although, calling it a flaw was a bit wrong on my part. It us by design. Paraphrasing someone on the internet: activitypub federation is pull rather than push. The downside of this is, some info will never reach you. The upside is: self hosting activitypub software is possible even with limited resources.