Ross Schulman
Is there a reason that Mastodon can't pull down the (public) post stream of a random user when I click on them to see their profile? How am I supposed to see if I want to follow someone back if I can't see anything about them?
Apr 18, 2017 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 18, 2017
@ross You're supposed to use the public profile on their origin instance for a full view
Show threadStefanie SchulteApr 18, 2017
@ross Simply click their avatar a second time once their profile opens, and you'll get access to their public profile (or am I misunderstanding something here?). @Gargron
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 18, 2017
@stefanieschulte @ross that's right
Show threadStefanie SchulteApr 18, 2017
@ross The public profile page should look something like this: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron
Show threadRoss SchulmanApr 18, 2017
@Gargron Right, I knew that part. Just wondering why the Mastodon app can't do it itself. Save me the second click and the extra tab opening?
Show threadTonioApr 18, 2017
@Gargron you mean that you have to have an account on the instance which host the account ?
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 18, 2017
@Tonio no you just open the public page, anonymously...
Show threadTonioApr 18, 2017
@Gargron all right ! thank you for your answer and your work ! I really appreciate the project !
Show thread🐠⭕✨Dusk The Tusk✨⭕🐠✅Apr 18, 2017
@ross yeah I wanna know this too
Show threadFrankie MApr 18, 2017
@ross I believe it's a technical one so far. You get info from your instance, but your instance hasn't received whatever content you want to look at yet. I agree it needs improvement, scaling that is probably not easy
Show threadRoss SchulmanApr 18, 2017

@m Yes, I'm guessing that's correct. I guess was just wondering if my client side app couldn't do an http request to the other user's instance to pull their profile in real time.

There would be some security hurdles to deal with there, but sanitizing the return shouldn't be too hard.

Show threadMaiyannah BishopApr 18, 2017
@ross postActiv with the Qvitter UI does this with displaying all known posts from that user, which is usually "good enough"