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1. Jorge Stolfi (jorgestolfi@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:36:29 UTC Jorge Stolfi

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   It is not just the user interface, it is the very basic design of the fediverse.

   One of the annoying features is that the same post shows up again and again in my feed, every time someone I follow boosts it. The old USENET avoided that by keeping track - in my local machine - of the messages I had already seen. Like any email server does. But the fediverse cannot do that, because it cannot keep such memory anywhere...

   • Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:36:27 UTC Alexandre Oliva

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     if you will delegate to an instance the decision on what to show you on your browser when you connect to it, you'd have to pick an instance that does that for you. mastodon mainline could make that configurable. someone could patch mastodon in their instance to behave as you wish. you could run your own instance. you could run something other than mastodon that behaved as you wish. these are all in line with the notion of decentralization and browser-based UX. I sense there's some other unstated requirement.
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   • Jorge Stolfi (jorgestolfi@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:36:28 UTC Jorge Stolfi

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     • Alexandre Oliva

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     I can see that an app could keep track of the messages I have read (like the old mail and Usenet readers did). Or a centralized service like Xitter and Whatzap. But how could a browser-based AND decentralized service do it?

   • Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:36:29 UTC Alexandre Oliva

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     no, it's really the user interface of specific implementations. one could modify the code running an instance to keep track of viewed posts and refrain from showing them again. an app could do that too, even if the instance kept on informing it of boosts.
     ActivityPub will indeed flag boosts as you describe, but that doesn't have to carry over all the way to the user interface