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/
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nostr:npub15xsk38cqnnhreutft72u32aw0488r5hw9xrqt47ryy0aq6mwvx5s29gcmf Making the distinction between primary posts and reposts, esp. the technical solution, may cause Fediversers to twitch a bit, because the solution might involve mimicking some of The Bird Site’s message structure (which does, or at least used to)