Hey all, just another newbie post about Friendica here as I'm trying to learn the ropes.

I notice that some times when I follow someone - be it an account on Mastodon, Sharkey, etc - their Network Posts are blank until they post something.

So I went searching for a setting or some kind of toggle to perhaps change that to enable me to see a user's existing posts prior to the point when I followed them.

I could only find the following link below which mentioned the process.

Is there a toggle somewhere that would let people see older posts from users on Fediverse?

github.com/friendica/friendica…

Currently it works like this: to see a post or comment your server has to receive it first. This happens if any of these are true:

1you or someone else on your server is subscribed to the author of this item
2 the item is reshared by someone you or someone else on your server is subscribed to
3 you interacted with child item (e.g. reply to the post) which causes parent items to get fetched

If you just stumbled upon someone's post and there are some comments from people who never made it to your server you won't see them - and I think this is the case for any Fedi platform, not just Friendica. This is also the reason you sometimes don't see full "like" counts for others' posts.