For a mobile feed, would you paginate by offset or by cursor (keyset)? Justify it with the differences between the two.
Offset produces duplicates and gaps when items are inserted or deleted, and it gets expensive for the server. A cursor is anchored to the last item, so it's stable and costs a single index lookup. A mobile feed gets new posts inserted constantly, so pick cursor.
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