One thing that frustrates me about Mastodon is that you can do everything, engage with different people over different servers, have awesome, caring instance admins, etc. But still, half the data you can fetch is literally months outdated or incomplete. I see accounts in follower lists which instances are dead since God knows how long. From the 40 followers someone has, my client only displays 2. I love the concept and all that, but it is so unpredictable, not to say unstable, but I don't know a better word to describe it. And it's not my instance, I've tried on 2 different instances, with different profiles, some on the instance itself, some not.
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Adam MacLeod
in reply to Jonathan • • •Fortunately, The latest FetchAllReplies framework they have released in 4.5 will hopefully start to resolve a lot of this inconsistent state stuff.
It will be actively making connections and fetches of data from any remote instances mentioned in any given post as it is requested via the API or the web interface.
It will add some performance penalty to the transaction, as well as potentially require larger instance admins to scale their resources differently, or in some cases reevaluate their entire resource distribution plan and rework. But from a user perspective, it will transparently appear that all posts and threads are consistent, no matter what instance they have been requested from.