feat: Load all replies on request
Created by: rachel
Summary
As a user I'd like to be able to load all replies to a post on request. This would likely be an option in the more-options dialog on a post, or optionally added to the set of buttons near the fav/boost/etc.
Purpose
Often on smaller instances many/most of the replies are not visible, making the conversation feel more empty than it really is. This makes it harder to find new people to follow, and can critically make reply-guy pile-ons even worse as people give redundant responses.
(P.S. I don't know AP super well, but I assume that the reason that all replies aren't loaded by default is that it would increase load beyond what would be reasonable)
Activity
Created by: dakkar
related: #249 (the mechanisms are pretty similar)
as an explanation for why you don't see most replies…
- if you follow a user, their instance will (usually) forward replies to all followers' instances, so you usually see most (direct) replies
- if you don't follow a user, their instance can't know you care about replies to their messages, to it won't push them to you
the work-around is to "pull" replies, which is technically possible only on some fedi software, because not all of them expose the replies as a "collection" (fun fact: mastodon does, *key don't; I would like to add that as well…)
summary: adding this feature won't magically make all replies appear, because it need cooperation from other fedi software
marked this issue as related to #249
In the meantime, I have this tool in use
added enhancement label
marked this issue as related to #738 (closed)
marked this issue as related to #205
marked this issue as related to #948 (closed)
added federation label
mastodon will do it this way https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
the main issue is still throttling
