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Axel Rauschmayer

Current weakness of Mastodon: You often don’t see all replies of a post (unless it’s your post).
Details: 2ality.com/2024/11/mastodon-we

A pull request to fix this has just been merged and should be available in the next update to Mastodon (hopefully within the next months). I’m delighted to see this.

More information via @FediTips: social.growyourown.services/@F

2ality.comMastodon’s weaknesses and how to fix themAs a web developer, I love Mastodon: Since Twitter became X, there are enough web dev people here. I’m happy with the web app – it even has several nice touches where it is better than Twitter. I’m not locked into an ecosystem that is controlled by a single company. That being said, Mastodon still has several major weaknesses. In this blog post, I collect those and explain what’s being done to fix them. It is not meant to be exhaustive: If there is a weakness that affects you and isn’t mentioned here, then please let us know in the comments.
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Heribert Schütz

@rauschma @FediTips
I remember that I missed parts of an extended discussion a while ago using mastodon's standard web UI and it looked like #PhanpySocial showed more (transitive) answers. But is it actually possible to solve this problem purely on the client side?

Quiet public *
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@hcschuetz @rauschma

Yes it is, you can already manually pull in all the public parts of a discussion by opening the thread's "original page" and then copy-pasting the URLs of all the replies into the search box on your instance. This is very tedious so no one does this, but there's nothing to stop a client or script or instance doing it automatically.

I am not a dev but AFAIK the main holdup has been how to do this efficiently without causing strain on instances.

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