I'm still a fediverse baby and I am testing various fediverse platforms and accounts. Recently I tried to search my own pixelfed.social account from gram.social and was surprises that I see 2 photos from 7 on my profile. I see not likes count.

Why such inconsistencies? If pixelfed and gram shall communicate with protocol, why not everything is visible? That can give a user a false information because such searched account looks unused/abandoned.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it possible the missing items are from before the account federated to gram.social?

[–] lukkon@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does it mean? Gram account is from today. Pixelfed is 2 weeks old. Both public accounts.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fediverse works like newsletters via email. If you search for an account on a different server, only the last few items are (sometimes) pulled and shown on your local instance. Only after subscribing/following that other account, you'll get new(!) updates sent to your local server. For older messages, you'll have to visit the other account's server.

Maybe those 2 photos you see were shared with gram.social earlier.

[–] lukkon@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it was shared/reposted, how would I know?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any new shares/reposts would show once the account was followed from the gram.social server. Anything prior to that you would have to view the account on the home instance.

[–] lukkon@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just to add info. The two photos were not published after one another.

I see my very 1st published photo and the 5th. Others are not visible from gram.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

I don't know whether people think this is a good or bad thing to do, but I follow each of my fediverse accounts from all of my other fediverse accounts. Like, I follow my Pixelfed account from my WAFRN account and vice versa, etc etc. Not trying to inflate my followers count at all, I wish it wouldn't, but just to avoid this very problem. So unless it's breaking some kind of fedi norm, I'd suggest to do that.