wakest

This article has been a source of so much frustration over the years. I honestly think it should be scrapped and entirely rewritten.

Thanks for the context context!

Wow that is a badly written sentence! I think you get my point tho

My point is that there is never a hard line between any other parts of the fediverse so if there is a new feature or way one part does something it will always have an effect on the other parts.

everything is weaved together! What happenes when a mastodon account responds to a piefed account and then that gets shared by a Friendica account etc.

Sometimes you see a post on your home instance and it looks like it has no replies but then you go look at it on the remote view and there are lots of replies. Backfilling is like making sure if you see a post it has all the comments