Can someone explain to me (in simple terms) how federation and posts work?

It's no secret I have alts. But I follow all my alts from this account (in case there's something I want to boost). But I know if I make a genius post from this account that it seems to be random if my alts will pull the post (I don't mutual myself because I post too much, so I mean if I search for this account and and look at posts).

I don't really want advice, I just want to understand how it works.

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@lapis an instance only pulls posts from an account if it's subscribed to it, so if anyone from there follows that account. However, if anyone that instance is subscribed to boosts that post, it will know about it and list it on the right profile page. Also, when viewing a thread, the software attempts to load all posts that belong in it, which may also pull in additional posts

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