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oh i have a comment relevant to this post
*checks their profile* …but i will be keeping it to myself
the answer is almost always thst somebody who is a fine person on another instance replied to them, causing the original post to federate with the reply
anyway it’s always the sketchy weirdos who make a fuckton of posts on public that get wide reach and a lot of replies, which is not an amplification pattern i particularly appreciate, fediverse
i don’t defederate from people just because i don’t like them or think they have issues but there are a fair number of regulars on our federated timeline where i am just like “why are you here”