• I agree it’s broken, however YSK this is also a side-effect of the design principles of ActivityPub.

    If you use Mastodon you may have noticed boosted posts from people you… A. don’t follow and B from other instances have no replies. This is especially noticeable if you’re on a small or personal instance. The root cause is identical to missing posts/comments on Lemmy: Nobody pushed the replies, and Mastodon won’t fetch it for you.

    Some sort of standardized “History fetching” mechanism would’ve been nice if it were in the actual spec IMO.