a mastodon.social user walks into a bar. the bartender says The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

(hint: click "open original page")
@mia wait a second
@mia oh that's so smart
@mae help i don't get it
@faye the post's content is generated dynamically based on the instance that's fetching it
@mae @faye I thought the original poster had something against toot.cafe (the server I'm on) in particular.
@matt @mae @faye I wonder if this could be prevented somehow? I can easily see folks making posts that look innocent to me, but are actually harassment directed at, say, a black or queer or disabled runn server. Maybe I even boost the post!
@fastfinge @faye @mae @matt I’m really curious how this works out, it’s either innocuous or a huge bug.
@reconbot @faye @mae @matt I mean, if I can't trust that I'm getting the same post on my server that you're getting on yours, even though it has the same actor and ID and so-on, I'm gonna say huge bug. Because now we're not interacting with the same thing, even though we think we are.
@fastfinge @faye @mae @matt at least we can tell when a post gets edited, similar situation 😅
@reconbot @faye @mae @matt Right, and when a post gets edited, we all see the same edit. How long until nazi trolls use this to trick high profile people into boosting their stuff? Maybe something that looks fine to all users of mastodon.social, but is hate-speech on every other instance?
@fastfinge @faye @mae @matt I get it, I imagine this cool Little project is gonna start a huge storm of activity to mitigate this issue with the protocol.
@fastfinge @faye @mae @matt I also wonder how hard it would be to detect us. I’m wondering if this is the first time someone’s discovered it