William Casarin

merged this! let's merge 335 next

> Made socket optional to avoid wasting memory resources don't we always need socket?

hmm ok I see what you mean now... that commit looks better.

need to make sure that doesn't break anything

thanks!

seems to be working ok!

> Fixed in this PR, but initially Will wanted to fix it a different way. I wonder if he'd reconsider, at least for now. > > #896 now that we...

we have two options: 1. leave them as links and render them as mentions 2. convert them to actual mentions during post composition and parsing. maybe 2 is better

the downside of 2 is that you can't share damus links over DMs and stuff... but at least you can always go to the note and then click share from...

thanks