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   Michael (michael@mstdn.thms.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 01:28:03 JST Michael

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   Several people have asked me whether this makes FediFetcher obsolete. I thought I'd put out a more public response to this question:

   Unfortunately I don't think I can retire FediFetcher just yet, as it still has some utility:

   Firstly, FediFetcher can fetch context proactively without having to expand posts. (Eg one of my favourite features of FediFetcher is that it pro-actively pulls in replies to posts in my home timeline. I personally wouldn't really want to miss out on this.)

   Secondly, FediFetcher can also backfill profiles - something that, as far as I can tell, Mastodon is still unable to do, and has no intention of implementing.

   Thirdly, it'll likely still be a while until these changes are available in any released versions, and likely even longer until 3rd party apps have support for it.

   I do hope it’s the beginning of the end of FediFetcher, but imo we are not there just yet!

   #mastoadmin #fedifetcher

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     Michael (michael@mstdn.thms.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 01:28:05 JST Michael

     Looks like Mastodon is finally getting some built in functionality to fetch missing replies:

     https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615

     🥳

     #mastoadmin #fedifetcher

     cadu :chick_santa: repeated this.