Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: A fundamental design flaw in #Mastodon is that you have no guarantee that everyone ...

A fundamental design flaw in #Mastodon is that you have no guarantee that everyone viewing a thread will see all replies to that thread -- a problem unique to Mastodon among social media platforms as far as I know. The dangers in this are obvious, because viewers may see incomplete threads and only a subset of replies without realizing which (or that any) are missing -- there is no clue. So even something as simple as agreement or disagreement can be misinterpreted when you don't know for certainty what reply was being replied to. There apparently is some work on possibly, maybe, perhaps fixing this, and there are some workarounds, but the basic topology makes these all very expensive to deploy.