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Docs: Motivation why same-server followers should be excluded
On the following page in the docs https://fedify.dev/manual/send there is a section about how to exclude followers who live on the same server as the sender of a message.
The paragraph needs a motivational section because as a Fedify user, I don’t understand why the followers on the same server as me should be excluded. They won’t get the Create activity that I send, right?
Usually, you don't want to send messages through ActivityPub to followers on the same server because they share the same database, so there's no need to.
For example, if @[email protected] creates a post, it's already stored in the database at example.com, so there's no need to send a Create(Note) activity to @[email protected], because @[email protected] already has access to the post in the database.
Does this explain it well enough?
Oh I see what you mean. Of course, this would be a good paragraph for the docs.
