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OK, some questions about this. (A) Some instances do or don't federate with Mostr, as described in their "peers" API. For instance, mastodon.social doesn't, but several other npubs I follow are on servers that do. (B) For instances that DON'T federate with Nostr, aren't they effectively one-way channels? Should there be some kind of profile badge or warning tacked onto their NIP-05 info that "they won't hear what you say" or something like that? And (C), even for instances that do federate with Mostr, I frequently find that my comment replies just don't show up. In fact, this seems to be the "default" behavior. An example is nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzptujz495l5qzjfqrzwr0wyenkzhajaq6qah4cuutcfsr5k6e6eclqyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qgmwaehxw309a68yetwv35kueewwfjkcctewvhxcctwvshsqgqqxywug0jlpeehfy77r4wy7av6ldmx0gkhd57m8hdm42xs46tqk5frq0ly , which doesn't seem to show up on fosstodon.org, despite the fact that that server federates with Mostr
2025-11-25 18:23:36 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓
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Yes, Mastodon servers can block Nostr content from their server (their users would not see it). They can also prevent their content from being fetched by Mostr, preventing Nostr users from seeing it (although this is less common). This is the same as Mastodon to Mastodon federation. From ​their perspective, Mostr is just another Mastodon server. So this doesn't change whether it's a 2-way bridge. That would be like saying that any individual Mastodon server is only a 1-way bridge to other Mastodon servers that block receiving content from it.
2025-11-25 18:52:47 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 3 replies ↓ Reply