Notices by L0ne (loneconspirator@mastodon.social)

@feditips Good point, if posts from another server are ephemerally presented to you, they would not be available for interaction. So the whole thing could lead to more confusion unless you could copy an unpinned post from an unfollowed user to your server upon interacting with it. And that sounds like a much bigger lift. I appreciate you giving me that context.

@feditips Thanks for the link, that’s pretty interesting, though slightly different from what I was suggesting. Where that deals with how to copy old posts onto a server after someone subscribes, I’m thinking about how to show old posts to someone who is not subscribed without copying them to the server.

I will dig around the issues and see if my suggestion is in there, and if not, I’ll add it! The beauty of open source! :)

@feditips Is there a reason not to show all the account’s original posts when you view it on a server that doesn’t store any of them? The server could proxy the posts from their source server, or even just instruct the client browser to go grab and display them.

This feels important to me, as discovery is one of the big challenges for new mastodon users, and this effect is a pretty big speed bump on that road