Ross SchulmanIs 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?
Frankie M@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
@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.