Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?
noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 6 days agoThank you, this makes sense. Is there any hope for Mastodon and other services to achieve a similar level of parity without eating up a ton of space? I feel like it is a big hurdle for Fedi, but I understand these things take time and a ton of work.
julian@community.nodebb.org 6 days ago
Sure, check out my post about it here:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18844/backfilling-conversations-two-major-approaches
There are steps being taken in the right direction.
tavostator@feddit.org 6 days ago
Very interesting read!
noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This was very interesting! While I don’t fully understand everything, based on what I can, I’m partial to the second one. If the the instance disappears, I doubt the hoster wants that stuff up anyway. It makes it easier on everyone, and the replies seem (?) to stay up as well. A win-win. Either way it goes, I can only be thankful to the engineers working so hard to make this a reality. 🙏
julian@community.nodebb.org 6 days ago
Thanks! It's something that I personally feel is more performant and future proof for other important things like private discussions (which Mastodon also doesn't support natively yet — mention spamming doesn't count.)