social.growyourown.services is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Single-user Mastodon instance for the Grow Your Own Services site

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At the moment, if there's a reply from an account that your server has not "noticed" then it may not be visible in the thread.

There's a whole list of scenarios where a server might notice an account or post:

fedi.tips/which-posts-and-acco

TL:DR - To preserve resources, servers only show accounts and posts they have noticed. This keeps server costs low enough that anyone can start and run their own server, but has the side-effect of not showing everything from every server.

fedi.tipsWhich Mastodon and Fediverse posts and accounts can I see from my server? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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