John Mark Ockerbloom on Nostr: Longtime developer Jamie Zawinski (who worked on Netscape back in the day and coined ...
Longtime developer Jamie Zawinski (who worked on Netscape back in the day and coined the name "Mozilla") details how Mastodon's handling of replies to posts is seriously broken, and suggests a way it could be remedied. (His suggestion would also help with the problem of Mastodon servers DDOSing a site when a popular account posts a link to it):
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/Published at
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