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2025-06-12 15:25:45

rm@my.talesofmy.life

Suspicious here on #hubzilla that my comments, at least, sometimes, aren't getting distributed into Mastodon. Or maybe just mastodon dot social. Or ... dunno.

2025-06-12 17:52:01

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

That's probably because threads work differently on Mastodon from Hubzilla. Mastodon doesn't know threaded conversations. And Mastodon users only receive messages

posted by actors that they follow
boosted (repeated) by actors that they follow
which mention them

But they do not receive messages that are comments on posts which they've already received.

Let's assume Alice posts something on Mastodon, Bob comments on Mastodon, Carol replies to Bob on Mastodon, Dave replies to Carol on Mastodon and you reply to Dave on Hubzilla.

If this was an all-Hubzilla thread, you'd only mention Dave to show that you're replying to Dave. Your comment goes straight to Alice, and Bob, Carol and Dave pick it up from Alice because they've already got Alice's post on their stream.

But since Alice, Bob, Carol and Dave are on Mastodon, if you only mention Dave, then only Dave will receive and be notified about your reply because you've mentioned Dave. Alice, Bob and Carol will never see your reply because you haven't mentioned them.

So in this constellation, if you want all four to see your reply, you have to mention them all.

Granted, other reasons may be delivery delays on Hubzilla's side, or that enough Mastodon users have muted or blocked you because, from their point of view, you as a Hubzilla user act too disturbingly un-Mastodon-like, and you break Mastodon's unwritten rules left and right.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Conversations #ThreadedConversations

2025-06-12 19:43:37

Randal

rm@my.talesofmy.life

@Jupiter Rowland Yes, I've seen discussions about these problems. Seems they've gotten worse ...
Thanks for your comment, well explained.