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Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This applies to any of the microblogging software. Akkoma, IceShrimp, etc. I go to any Lemmy instance, big or small, and the up/downvote data and replies are basically all the same. The same goes for Peertube, and most services that aren't Mastodon and the gang. Why is this? Is it because of older design? Unexpected issues cropping up with scale? It seems to be such a big struggle over there, but for everyone else, it's whatevs.

I would love to permanently reside on a smaller Mastodon instance or host my own, but I often find that many posts are unavailable and a lot of replies I want to reply to don't exist. It is an incredibly frustrating experience.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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. 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours 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.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Very interesting read!