Haha part 3 of applying high voltage to electronic toys just dropped :D
@Macross @technoid_ To this day, I still remember that show for a perfect throw of a bottle of Faygo Rock & Rye that hit the stage and rocketed off over the crowd at a 45 degree angle. Just masters at their craft
@fraying @molly0xfff That thing where I roll up to the Chipotle and dump 55 Beanie Babies on the counter to trade for a burrito bowl, we've all been there
@fraying @molly0xfff Price jumped to 67 before they finished ringing me up 😅
jwz's ideas for improving mastodon threading consistency
Reading through jwz's post wishing for more reliable reply threading in Mastodon and trying to think through how it could work.
Seems like the big idea is that the first note in a thread - i.e. the one not in reply to anything - becomes responsible for collecting the list of replies for the entire thread.
50 replies deep in a threadnaught? A new reply notifies the direct replied-to note and the top-most parent note.
On viewing any post in the middle of the thread - or maybe upon receiving a reply - that post's instance consults the top parent post for an update to the whole thread.
If the original-poster wants to shut down the party, they can break the thread intentionally. Feature, not a bug.
Seems like a decent solution for consistency. I wonder what the burden would be on the instance hosting the initiating post?
re: jwz's ideas for improving mastodon threading consistency
I guess if we really wanted to get spicy, when the top post gets notified of a deeply-nested reply, it could relay that down to all the instances involved in the thread. Sidekiq queues hate this one weird trick
re: jwz's ideas for improving mastodon threading consistency
Probably worth thinking about "orphaned" replies turning into new top-level posts, if the parent post goes away.
Also seems like there should be some consideration for spreading the effort of keeping the thread federated between instances - e.g. maybe instances hosting inReplyTo targets relay updates and keep a sub-tree of the thread locally?
re: jwz's ideas for improving mastodon threading consistency
@thomasfuchs I think that wouldn't necessarily be any worse than the current situation where threads are regularly fragmented?
It's also still rather decentralized, since top-level thread posts can originate on any instance
@jalefkowit I watched the Rainforest Cafe video, and then saw it was followed up by "I ate at every Margaritaville across the country". I was like, does this guy need a youtube-intervention?