In-reply-to » All this hash breakage made me wonder if we should try to introduce “message IDs” after all. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net The problem with the approach Email clients do things is;

  • How do you come up with the message/thread id in the first place? I’m pretty sure most clients just use a UUID.
  • How do you know what you’re replying to if you don’t see the message/thread id in the first place?
  • How do two different users that don’t know each other, but follow the same feed (say /.) make two independent responses forming a thread? What message/thread id do they use? (see above)

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