I tried to migrate from mastodon.social to vivaldi for the 1000+ character limit. I found out that it doesn’t display favorites from accounts that aren’t on vivaldi. I made an account on toot.cat and the same thing happened. Also I can’t see the trending section in my toot.cat account. Isn’t mastodon supposed to show faves from all servers? Why is this happening?

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
    4·
    4 days ago

    That’s just how it is. You can only see favs if the post is on your instance, or if the fav is from your server. A fav from a remote instance to another remote instance is not known to your instance.

    It’s the same on mastodon.social but not as noticeable because it’s so big

    • Oliver@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I don’t feel like looking up the issue on GitHub, but Gargon once explained that he doesn’t want to change this mechanism, as otherwise instances would falsify non-existent likes and thus manipulate the system.

      The actual likes are therefore only visible on the instance from which the post originated, as every like is transferred to this instance.