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YurkshireLad

I've got 134 followers on . So if I create a new post on mastodon.social, does the instance send 134 copies of my post out, or one to each instance that hosts my followers?

@YurkshireLad with the exception to users who are on the same server as you are on, of course

@YurkshireLad Twitter used to also send out a copy of new Tweets to EVERY follower of that Tweet's author.

So this pattern isn't exclusive to a publicly federated systems; private and centralized services used to also use this pattern.

So I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't change.

@manlycoffee @YurkshireLad

There has been a bit of improvement with this — look up "sharedInbox".

(Now the Fediverse needs batching, in addition to this.)

@manlycoffee @YurkshireLad it would actually depend on whether the followers software implements a SharedInbox as mastodon does.

@YurkshireLad @django they're correct. I just learned about the sharedinbox