@julian It appears as an orphan post, but may be part of a thread with multiple accounts joining in. Of course, you keep getting new 'threads' which were conjoined.

@evan@cosocial.ca yes, you can but that's not the point I think? The point is that generating the collection is more expensive than returning the ETag, if it's cached (and it is, with NodeBB). So if I wanted to check the context for updates, I could issue a lightweight HEAD instead of a GET, and the target server could simply bounce back the ETag. Likewise, I think it sends the appropriate http response (304 Not Modified) when If-None-Match matches the ETag, or something. So I think with collections of object ids, the savings are minimal but it could add up to much more for endpoints that return entire objects... Like an outbox! It's been awhile since I worked on that code.

@julian Hi, you can contact developers on peertube@framasoft.org. We can create an account for you on https://peertube2.cpy.re/

@williamtries you will be the person in shorts and t-shirt walking outside here?

@wjmaggos@liberal.city I think that thinking of "anything" being boostable is both weird and expected at the same time. We hold these thoughts in our heads concurrently because it was how the web-at-large (indieweb notwithstanding) worked. What I mean is... A news article isn't a discrete resource shared on a common social web — such a construct does not exist outside of the Fediverse. ... but news articles are littered with "share via..." buttons that sort of approximate the experience.

Ah. Yes, I'll add that. Thanks!