This is interesting: I followed 3 accounts on 3 other Masto servers. @robertwgehl federated with us. Now the federated list shows 100 instances connected with us. Most of them with a single user. The masotodon.social shows 23 users, when I only followed one on that instance. Clearly, this federation thing is more complicated than I thought. #insights
@ggow this note from Gargron explains it a bit: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/861#issuecomment-294300073
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@robertwgehl I'll neeed to wade into that discuss. I'm trying to picture the federated structure in my mind. Managing the extent of federated instances will be something of concern for community groups that might be considering ASM.
