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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] 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Lemmy and lots of other software use a fediverse extension called 1b12 to keep everything in sync.

In a nutshell it means Lemmy communities can follow other communities, and they keep each other in sync. The same applies for other types of communities, like PieFed communities, Mbin magazines, NodeBB categories, etc.

Mastodon doesn't have a concept of community or categories, so they don't support this kind of synchronization.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Thank 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 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] 6 points 1 day ago

Very interesting read!

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