Mastodon not trying to load an account's outbox when following is one of the most frustrating "features" of the platform. In what world is "user has 24 posts, but I won't show them to you" good UX, At least fetch it client side without indexing into the db or something. 🙃

@mauve mastodon clients could really use to contact remote servers more often.

@teal @mauve problem is you need to sign fetches to most servers these days, and a client can’t do that

@em @teal What makes you say that they can't? I use signed fetches as auth for the #DistributedPress #SocialInbox and it's pretty straightforward. There's the issue of CORS headers not being availabke on a lot of instances tho.