Well, Mastodon is even more fucked than I thought when I built my own client.
Turns out an instance may eventually evict posts from accounts from other instances.
Say you are on instance A, and a friend is on instance B. You two have a convo. After some time, all of B's replies are gone from your instance. If you view your thread, you are missing all their replies. If you are lucky, instance B still has all replies. Or not. Poof.
What a terrible, terrible platform.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rovarma/111348337555786854
Mario Zechner /
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2023-11-03 22:51:33
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