Is there a fix for, "This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete."

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨modem_down@thebrainbin.org⁩ to ⁨AskMbin@thebrainbin.org⁩

I use Mbin because it seems to be the only software that provides subscriptions to Fediverse microblogs (e.g. from Mastodon) as well as subscription to Fediverse forums/communities/magazines (e.g. from Lemmy). Unfortunately, when viewed from Mbin, Mastodon profiles often have the warning, **This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance** Example: https://thebrainbin.org/u/@transitous@en.osm.town What's the source of this issue? E.g. is it: - Due to a choice by the admin of the Mbin server hosting my account? - Due to a bug in Mbin? - Something else?

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auster@thebrainbin.org@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not an issue but a standard warning. Fediverse instances don't auto-populate, and the author of the original project¹ must have thought it was a good idea to raise awares of that by putting this warning. But if it bothers you and you use Ublock Origin, though no native option to dismiss it are availabe, you can put this in a new line of Ublock Origin's custom filters tab: `thebrainbin.org##.alert__info.alert` ¹Mbin's a fork, and the original software's no longer worked on
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- modem_down@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for your reply. I should have been clearer! It's not the banner that bothers me, it's the fact that that microblog's posts (toots) aren't being displayed when viewed from Mbin! Is there anything I can do in order to get those posts to propagate through to Mbin? Would I have to contact the admin for the Mbin instance hosting my account? Something else?
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  - BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You could type in the url of the post in the search bar, but if you follow a user their future posts will be sent to your server. We were talking about implementing a backfill option, but there is no eta yet, so no guarantee it will be implemented at all. But since it is an annoying problem, maybe it will
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- auster@thebrainbin.org@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A lot in Mbin can be improved with Ublock Origin's custom filters, by the way. Like auto-hiding posts you like/dislike, or hiding from the main feed and magazine feeds replies appearing as posts. But I'd suggest not using the infinite scrolling option if using custom filters as that's a massive load on the server and Ublock Origin after enough matches in a single page are done starts misbehaving.
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