What if there was a feature on the fediverse that when you followed someone that your server didn't know about, you could click a button that says something like, request full federation, and that would run a query to backfill them onto your home server.
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@liaizon Quotes have been requested since 2016 as well!
quote + boost · Issue #309 · mastodon/mastodon
This turned out to be a major Twitter feature: being able to inline the text of a retweet while adding your own. It was done by manually copy-pasting the text before a feature was developed. How to go about implementing this, or an equiv...
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@stefan yeah I know about that one for sure, at least we have it now in 2026 and it sorta works
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@liaizon @paul no, it just accesses the API so you can run it from ... anything you want, including Github (which would be the easiest way to get it running from free) a computer you have flying around at home, or whatever else takes your fancy.
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FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance. - Home · nanos/FediFetcher Wiki
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