Why Your Social.org Files Can Have Millions of Lines Without Performance Issues
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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889354
In my filesystem I could arrange things to be easy to fetch
ls ~/Org/Social/2025/10/
and then fetch the documents I didn't have.
I feel that all this logic is just to workaround problems that may arise when fetching multiple small files, mostly tied to overhead and artificial data ordering when fetching a set of tiny files. Hasn't HTTP3 fixed most of them already?