I understand the big picture for how mastodon works, but I am constantly running into edge cases where I don't know what to expect. Has anyone made a decision tree diagram (or flow chart) to show how Mastodon decides whether to show me someone's post, and where to show it?
A complete decision tree would cover at least the following settings:
- Post settings: Public; unlisted; etc.
- Individual connections: Individual follow, mute, block, etc.
- Boosts and replies
- Instance-level moderation (same server, suspended, silenced)
- timelines (home, local, federated), hashtag search, thread-view
Privacy Badger has recently started blocking Twitter embedding for me (in the past few days). Does anyone know specifically what Twitter is doing to prompt this? For instance, see this thread on the Ukraine war on Daily Kos, which includes a lot of embedded Twitter posts https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/9/2204752/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-625-RU-may-experience-redeployment-issues