Or back in the days where Google Reader was a thing, one request from them could represent millions of readers.

Oh great, thanks.

Has it been confirmed this is a federation bug?

I wonder if the companies that forked mastodon (like truth social) will bother to update. I can see someone posting stuff as a former president with this flaw.

Yep, they’ll extend the shit out of the protocol, and that can take any form. It’ll probably start with cute emoji or gifs that look great in threads but render as some weird code in other clients, and it’ll probably escalate from there until you can’t use the fediverse in anything other than the threads client. After which they’ll turn off federation altogether.

Yeah, it shows you haven’t used php in a while. Most of the gripes people have with it have been fixed over the years, and every framework encourages you to build an API-first app these days.

Would be hilarious if all the third party reddit clients updated at the same time to connect to a completely new board.

Maybe they optimised the site to have certain servers allocated to the bigger subs, and with them all going dark it screwed with that balance or something?

Blocking Twitter Blue users is the only way to make threads make sense again after he decided to weight them higher. Any time you open a tweet there’s like 10 Twitter Blue trolls with 3 followers that are sorted above the good comments.