> caching and serving the content of everyone you federate with This is a Mastodon quirk. Eugen made the decision that everything must be locally cached for th

> caching and serving the content of everyone you federate with This is a Mastodon quirk. Eugen made the decision that everything must be locally cached for the reason that big instances should not have a "slashdot effect" on remote, smaller instances. In my opinion that's wrong and his solution is actively working against the idea of "federated network", as the fediverse wants to be, and as the internet already is. The user facing problems stemming from this decision is (from the top of my head) the fact that you can't view another user's past posts if his server didn't federate with yours. That's such a low bar of improvement that it baffles me that nobody bothered to fix it so far.