That does seem like it would cover some cases. In my case, I’m noticing this with instances I’m fairly confident my base instance federated with, because other posts from the instances are visible to me. For example, I didn’t get a notification for your reply, but looking from Beehaw I was able to paste the link and find it that way. For other instances, I have no luck trying the same thing, even if I step back to pasting the post or the community, despite having other posts from the same time period accessible to me.

A practice like allowing or disallowing downvotes cannot on its own be judged “healthy” or “unhealthy”.

@[email protected]: For your consideration.

Some feedback to see if this is similar for others. First I tried searching ‘skypictures’ and only this post came up. Then I tried ‘[email protected]’ and got nothing. Lastly I tried ‘sky pictures’ and it appeared, but with only one post instead of two.

I might be experiencing something similar. I saw different posts under “All” before and after logging in, even using the same sort (“New”). But in both cases I’m viewing from my home instance.

There was another post about them abandoning all their Mastodon instances for a while (like over a month) until a bunch of people complained but I’m not sure how to find it. I think this article is from before that happened.