LIMIT and OFFSET have been misused for years for building Paginations for APIs. Learn here How To Improve Your Pagination Performance.

If you are wondering why lemmy is moving away from offset pagination since 0.19, here is a nice article about it

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Sorry for inconvenience, I updated the link

Oh thanks mate 👍

Interesting article but I kinda fail to see how you’d go if your paginating through sorted rows - you’d have to have an id in the sequence of your sort order?

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