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AFAIK, it doesn't send it to every server -- it sends it to every server with at least one recipient. Exactly how email works. Anyone can in fact write an alter
by boring_twenties 4y ago
AFAIK, it doesn't send it to every server -- it sends it to every server with at least one recipient. Exactly how email works. Anyone can in fact write an alternative SMTP server that delivers every mail to every account.
- mariusor 4y agoI suspect that the poster you're replying to makes a confusion with public posts, which ActivityPub, unlike email, has. When the public namespace is encountered as a recipient of an Activity, Mastodon indeed iterates over all the instances it is connected to and pushes it to all. But for follower only posting, you are right, Activities go only to the recipients, theoretically to each individual inbox, practically to the instance's shared inbox.