In practice, this is rarely an issue due to the nature of human attention. Beyond a couple dozen speakers in a conversation, it's noise.
At least to my observation; I haven't pulled apart the protocol to know why: if you're in a conversation in Mastodon it's real good about keeping you in it. The threading of posts seems to route them properly to the host servers the conversing accounts live on.
At least to my observation; I haven't pulled apart the protocol to know why: if you're in a conversation in Mastodon it's real good about keeping you in it. The threading of posts seems to route them properly to the host servers the conversing accounts live on.