I'd really like to see something like this on Mastodon, on Home feed and other main feeds. We should be able to know what the replies are about without having to open the whole thread.
Right now the replies don't mean anything unless I open them. Unmaintained Mastodon client Halcyon manages to do this, so it can be done in core as well. I once tried it via JS but my skills are not enough for it to be reliable enough.
@raikas posts are "rearranged" per paginated response (20 for Phanpy). If replied-to post is within the same response, it'll be moved to the top of the reply post. This is how it works for other clients too.
I think @rolle follows many folks (busy timeline), so replied-to posts are buried down in subsequent responses. The trick is an additional request to get the replied-to post (this is how Thread Indicator works in Phanpy) but as it's async so might cause the timeline to be jumpy.
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