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> When not logged in, clicking on the timestamp of a remote post on the currently shown instance jumps to the originating instance, as in previous releases. It doesn't do...

Maybe a reasonable thing to do here would be to allow admins to set the `aria-label` of custom emojis they upload. The appropriate `aria-label` for `hacker_b` is probably `b`! Assuming...

This is sort of a soft "no" argument, and I don't mean to be argumentative. I think quote boosting contributes to negative parts of the culture on other platforms, where...

> Displaying a quotation is fundamentally a client side presentation matter. There is no amount of protocol level or cryptographic stuff you can do to prevent it. This much is...

> This isn’t actually true. I see the equivalent of quote posting all the time. People are linking to other posts. There is a not-too-great preview in many clients. What...

> Well, the sad truth here is, that this feature will be in Mastodon sooner or later, just not in base Mastodon itself. It's a sad downside of open source,...

Do you happen to have scrolled down one or both of the timelines? Or are you viewing each of them "live", e.g. scrollbar at the top, with new posts visibly...

@OddSobriquet it looks like you've scrolled some way down the federated timeline in your video, which would indicate that you're affected by https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6438

> Is there a reference for this anywhere? A list of Mastodon security principles? Some reasoning behind this position? A thread model? I've failed to find an official position anywhere....

Because it's undesirable / inefficient. You're supposed to set up nginx so that it serves static files itself. The docs could probably be more clear about this, although the "install...