Ancestors

Written by Jenniferplusplus on 2025-01-21 at 22:33

Does mastodon (or any other common fedi backend) have a limit to the number of people you can mention in a post?

Just asking for science reasons

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Written by Jenniferplusplus on 2025-01-21 at 22:38

leaving it unbounded seems like it's just an invitation for people to fuck up your database, so letterbook is definitely going to have a limit. But the actual value of any limit would be pretty arbitrary. So my choice is to just make it up, or align with some other project. Between those two options, I prefer alignment.

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Toot

Written by silverpill on 2025-01-22 at 15:11

@jenniferplusplus My limit is 50

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Descendants

Written by Jenniferplusplus on 2025-01-22 at 15:25

@silverpill that feels like the right number to me, too. Definitely low enough to protect the database, and definitely high enough to permit just about any desirable use.

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Written by silverpill on 2025-01-22 at 15:32

@jenniferplusplus In my experience the main problem is the need to fetch so many actors. That may take a lot of time, and might even be a DoS attack vector.

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Written by Jenniferplusplus on 2025-01-22 at 15:37

@silverpill I would only need to fetch them if they're not already cached. But yes, not becoming a DoS vector is on my radar.

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