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On Mastodon, you never see all replies, especially if you host a small instance.

GoToSocial and IceShrimp.NET do a fetch all replies when you open the detail of a post.

This feature may finally be on its way to Mastodon!

Hoping it gets a UI indicator showing the reply retrieval progress. Right now, that is lacking in other software, you have to refresh the screen after a bit of time has passed and then see them, not ideal.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

#Mastodon #GoToSocial #IceShrimpNET

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in reply to Jeff Sikes

When I ran my GoToSocial instance, this was one of the things that was awesome about it.

Now that I'm back to running my own Mastodon server, I am using FediFetcher as a Github Action to fetch replies in the background.

github.com/nanos/FediFetcher

I can't wait for the change you posted about to get done though, it will be nice for it to be a built-in function of Mastodon.

in reply to steve mookie kong

@mookie I installed FediFetcher last night and have high hopes!

(Even though I’ve got a lot of error messages sent by mail over the night about failed/cancelled runs.)