Jason Pettus :blobnom: on Nostr: A post showed up in my feed today that really confused me, claiming that depending on ...
A post showed up in my feed today that really confused me, claiming that depending on what Mastodon instance you're on, you might be told that a post has a hundred replies, while someone else on another instance might be told that it has a thousand replies. The always reliable
npub1w9ayld9gf83lfcn5gwrayg2se0yvmwymcce28nsrljc6f5fmfkys4304m0 (npub1w9a…04m0) boosted it, so I'm assuming it's true, but I don't understand why this happens or what causes it. Thanks in advance for your plainly written explanation!
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2024-11-13 20:48:20Event JSON
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