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Twitter:
*I make a post at 9am and go about my day
*A racist replies with racial slurs at 9:15am
*Everyone sees the racist replies
*Everyone reports the racist replies
*Twitter mods take it down by 10am
*I check Twitter again at 11am, and never even see the racism!
Masto:
*I post at 9am
*Racists reply in such a way that only me, them and their followers, see the racism
*So no one reports it
*Everyone gaslights me with "I don't see racism here!"
@mekkaokereke @ddritter it’s actually a bit worse than that. Due to the way #Mastodon federation works, other people will miss a portion of the replies to you. Potentially even the majority of them. They only see them if they follow that user or someone on their server follows that user, or someone followed on the server boosts the reply.
So a nazi, just by being a nazi and not being followed by decent people, will reply and only you see it.
@mekkaokereke @ddritter at worst this can appear to others as if there are zero replies, even if there are dozens. #Mastodon doesn’t even indicate that to be the case.
The way this should work is either all replies are pushed to all following servers as they come in or that an on-demand fetch is in the protocol to allow servers to request missing replies (which a client could trigger).