@BeAware This feature exists on many platforms in a non-obtrusive way. We will tune it to ensure it behaves correctly. There are no plans to add (yet another) setting for this right now.
I'm just a humble country chicken admin, but I've been thinking a lot about the cost of the fediverse and how we can improve it for all of the instances... in a coop kind of way
The cost of handing all of the media is THE major problem for me atm.
Hello fedi. i am trying to solve the "fetch all replies" problem once and for all that makes the fedi feel a lot more desolate and with a lot more reply guys in it than it should be. this is take two, where before i had it triggered by a button, but now i think it should happen on the server-side whenever you expand a post. can anyone help me out figure out how to make this more efficient by only fetching posts that the server doesn't already have? i am not sure what the best strategy would be, and if anyone with experience doing efficient rails and SQL stuff could give me some pointers that would be gr8. the patch is actually extremely simple it just needs a few nice things to make it not DDoS everyone.
Renaud Chaput @renchap is a Mastodon core team member & CTO #mastodev. He is also the technical administrator for mastodon.social & mastodon.online #mastoadmin.
Renaud posts regularly about Mastodon issues and future plans.
If you want to know what is going on around here from a technical perspective @renchap is one account you really should be following.
We just published our first Trunk & Tidbits post! This will hopefuly be a monthly update where we showcase what we worked on last month, and what's coming next.
I hope this will bring more visibility to all the efforts and love that put on Mastodon