Aurynn Shawso I've started seeing Mastodon apps fetch posts in threads from other servers directly, bypassing server blocks.
This is ... this is deeply concerning to me.
Nyx Phoenix@aurynn ugh…
this was bound to happen because mastodon doesn't keep its local posts up to date 🦋
@traumaphoenix Distributed consistency is hard. But this isn't the right approach.
@aurynn no, I agree, the right approach would be to have the server fetch it like some other fedi servers…
but something tells me this has been flagged to website boy and he's responded by doing nothing
@traumaphoenix the server won't fetch it if it's a defederated server
@aurynn yeah but that's not the problem here
the apps' developers didn't put it in to bypass defederation, they put it in because mastodon does a piss-poor job of keeping posts up to date
this is entirely on Mastodon
@traumaphoenix distributed consistency is a hard problem