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   Jonathan Sadow (jsadow@c18.masto.host)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 00:39:48 JST Jonathan Sadow

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I still can't figure out why the search function doesn't find all of the hashtags on all non-blocked servers 🙄

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     Karen Bruner (fuzzykb@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 00:53:31 JST Karen Bruner

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I don't know where you got the Question Dog edit, but I am totally saving it.

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     Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 01:59:57 JST Jan

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Designing a distributed system is a trade-off between strong and eventual consistency.

     Mastodon is eventual consistency, meaning the network offers high availability but possible temporary inconsistency.

     Thats the reason why you see same answers from different people from different instances.

     A system which supports ACID transactions must choose a form of consistency as framed by CAP.

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     Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 04:10:06 JST Jan

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs For transitive relations between servers you have 3 options:

     1) Eager loading: You replicate and cache lots of posts, server admins complaining about storage.

     2) Lazy loading: You load the posts on click, it takes time, users complaining about UI/UX.

     3) No loading: Just a subset of posts gets loaded, admins are happy and users complaining about missing posts.

     Current solution: You open the thread on the original server.

     Needless to say, we have lots of room to improve. 🙂

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     Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 02:26:02 JST Deadly Headshot

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     I thought it did?

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     Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 08:01:35 JST Deadly Headshot

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Oh, there! Fedilab 2.x breaks the spec and fetches them anyway and the latest version has a button to do that, so I rarely have that issue, but I can see how it causes problems for most users...