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How do status/object ids work in Pleroma, when it comes to ordering? If I go to /api/v1/timelines/public, I get next and previous links in the response on both Pleroma and Mastodon, but Mastodon returns numeric ids that appear to be in order (are they?). I can use min_id and since_id using numeric IDs, and order by IDs to get the earliest/latest.

Pleroma uses alpha-numeric strings. Someone was telling me they’re encoded in base64 or sth and aren’t random, but that doesn’t seem to be the case (are they encoded? What are they encoded in?)