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.
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@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.
@mauve @teal right, a mastodon client can’t tho