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There is no "can Mastodon...", only "can this specific Mastodon instance...". Not everyone wants to run their traffic through a third party, especially if they

• marginalia_nu 3y ago
  To be fair, you could probably run a local cache. There's no point in re-rendering a page that is expected to change at most once every minute at every single request during a hug of death type scenario.
• moffkalast 3y ago
  Well from what I understand there's some kind of interoperable network that everything works through though? There ought to be some general caching there at least. Right now every time there's something hosted on Mastodon posted anywhere it's not accessible because apparently the architecture is so bad that the average instance can't even handle a few hundred visitors without completely freezing.
  • aprilnya 3y ago
    If you’re on an instance that got the post (by someone following them, someone following someone who boosted it, through a relay, by someone having visited it before, etc…), then yes, it’s cached and you can see it through your instance, usually by pasting the link in the search bar