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

Every release gets better and better. Makes me happy to see all the work that goes into this weird network that is Ours!

Thanks for the context context!

There have been monthly meetings about this issue and surrounding ones that are open to the public if you really want to know more. There are years worth of discussions about it too but they are very spread around

Was curious if they supported Piefed and tried to log in with my account and it doesn’t work but also doesn’t give an error lol

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