It should be a known issue with Mastodon, but they recently announced that they're about to merge a fix for this in an upcoming update. As a temporary fix on browser I use the substitoot extension to fetch all missing content from the original server of the post
Fediverse
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)
Federation on Mastodon is weird. Some information only federates if local users follow an account. Supposedly this is designed to be more lightweight on more limited servers.
It works the same on Lemmy, it's just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.
Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.
Mastodon has weird federation issues