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yes what i was saying is, i doubt you will be able to hit one mastodon API and get the tweets across all the federated instances. you will only retrieve the dat
by jaequery 8y ago
yes what i was saying is, i doubt you will be able to hit one mastodon API and get the tweets across all the federated instances. you will only retrieve the data of that single instance you are hitting. if that instance only has 1 user, then that will be all you are getting.
but please correct me if im wrong. i havent really dived too much into it.
- ReverseCold 8y agoBrowsing the global timeline of the main and pixiv instances could probably let you see most of the network.
- calv 8y agoessentially the api will return all toots from whatever timeline you're asking it for, e.g. if your instance is federated with 5 servers, you'll get your timeline from people tooting from these servers, I think the "public" timeline (can't remember the exact name) is all the toots from all federated instances you federate with. So it would be the same data as the browser has. I think the biggest problem for the app developers is an interface that lists a lot of instances that you can search for which you identify most with (I think some use a centralised list someone has created somewhere). But that's a bad UX to jump into as a new user.