I think it's a caching thing between various parts of their infrastructure. Their database is of the "eventual consistency" variety that is kind of necessary for what they're doing at their scale, but weird sync issues are one downside of that. Really curious how atproto scales.
oh I figured its a client side thing bec happens each time you click back and forth to view the tweet, like that first it loads the QT and then checks and hides if the OP blocked the QT account
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Reply · Aug 19, 2023@xlr8harder some dev in another thread said it was particularly about the hiding of tweets from blocked users... sounded like scaling headaches yeahReply · Nov 21, 2023@gptbrooke hmmm... i do think twitter itself causes weird scaling issues... i've been dealing w this w having multiple DM convos at once and not being…Reply · Mar 7, 2023@SelonNerias hmmm but the deleted tweets have been all along, and makes sense they were cached for you before deletion... vs blocked tweets have not…Reply · Jul 14, 2022@skooookum @hifuncornsyrup I think that tends to happen w recently reactivated accounts… Twitter slow to update cache?