Peter Krupa on Nostr: the way Mastodon works, an instance/server doesn't just store the posts from its ...
the way Mastodon works, an instance/server doesn't just store the posts from its users, it stores the posts and media of **all the other users** that its users follow.
maybe you can see where this is going.
it's not even about power users on our instance. all it takes is a couple of our users following a handful of power users on **other** instances and our database sucks in a ton of external content.
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2024-03-05 22:54:13Event JSON
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