🆕 blog! “How far did my post go on the Fediverse?”

I wrote a moderately popular post on Mastodon. Lots of people shared it. Is it possible to find out how many different ActivityPub servers it went to? Yes! As we all know, the Fediverse is one big chain mail. I don't mean that in a derogatory way. When I write a post, it appears on […]

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 @2fd7551e have you seen the "view reach" function on @376640de ? 

 @2fd7551e what I would really like is this: https://mastodon.social/@sil/109837677049472346
Is this stuff you're doing able to do that? That is: tell that when person X boosted your post, that person Y saw it (and boosted it themselves) *because person X did*? To build a chain/graph? 

 @2fd7551e I have a prediction about THIS post.... ;)