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@josh Honestly hard to figure out replies and how they are displayed across home vs a post in a live feed.
Ideally I want to just see things from others that are part of the #forkiverse but it seems that content from people outside of this instance appears.
Maybe I need a dedicated client, or need to hack on the api to better understand the structure of what I'm seeing in my "feed"
There are people who grasp this at the level of technical detail but I’m not one. My low tech grasp is that it’s an archipelago: your post can cross a bridge to other instances yours is connected to, and onwards from there. #hashtags do the work of your post getting about and being seen, which essentially pulls it over a bridge.
So from a different instance, I browsed the #forkiverse hashtag and here we are. People following me will see my post and might check to see who I’m replying to. If they can see your post (if there’s a bridge they can cross) they can see what else you’ve written unless it was just to your followers.
Potentially your post can be seen by many thousands of other instances.
It can also ve bridged to over to other networks, such as Threads or Bluesky.
Depending on your instances admin, it might even end up in less savoury parts of the Fediverse. Admins can block other instances form conecting, to prevent spam, child abuse material, far right nazis, abuse etc
Realisticly, other instances don't know about your post unless someone on the other insance follows you, or they relay data between each other, which most decent size instance do.
The snall and tiny instances, with a few users are unlikely to know about post, even with a hashtag.