I tried to migrate from mastodon.social to vivaldi for the 1000+ character limit. I found out that it doesn't display favorites from accounts that aren't on vivaldi. I made an account on toot.cat and the same thing happened. Also I can't see the trending section in my toot.cat account. Isn't mastodon supposed to show faves from all servers? Why is this happening?
For the sake of refreshing outdated information here, Mastodon 4.4 does now show remote favourite and boost counts where available (see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4-4-for-devs/) and also has an experimental feature to pull in remote replies. Obviously it will take some time for servers to update to the newer release, but we’re moving forward to improvements here!