Re:Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
by mkl on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:32PM
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If you can get the messages, you can run a client-side algorithm - just download everything in the last 24 hours or whatever, and algorithmically choose what to display in what order.
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Re:Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
by ekianjo on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:49PM
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That's a huge waste of resources on the client side. If every client does that it will bring the servers to their knees.
Re:Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
by nyclounge on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @10:14PM
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While I agree with you, technically everything can be done with API, but what are the bottle neck of just have everything accessing a db table directly? Cutting out the http API middle man?