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Several thoughts: 1. One thing that for me undermines the IP leaking argument a bit is that even as a technically proficient user, I have leaked my IP address to...

> Either instances cache every user in the Fediverse; or we accept that there is some limit where you cannot discover people who have not been cached on your instance;...

> > I think the bigger unrecognized problem here is probably social. A lot of people really like the isolation and privacy that federation creates, even if it results in...

> Any information that was exposed would already be visible by going to the users public profile on their own instance though right? No, quite a few instances don't allow...

>> That's true of a lot of things on Mastodon, including the apparent lack of searchability. > > It may be a valid intentional design choice. See for example, people...

I think ideally clicking "show results" would automatically subscribe you to the poll, the same as voting, so there'd be no need to implement these features separately. Implementing this would...

I was annoyed enough by the issues with sharing code on Mastodon that I built a custom tool to allow embedding external code (from Pastebin and Gists) directly on Mastodon...

@innosflew I believe you want to change [this line](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/5e796dc6f85b37c8378fe01cfd8ac23222c89eea/app/models/preview_card.rb#L123) to something like 546x546. There's nothing you can do if a site has an awful open graph image that's 250x250 or...

@gsuberland Question about the proposal. Suppose Dee replies to Alice before Bob does, so Alice has gotten two replies. How is this visualized? If you just connect them all with...

@gsuberland Sorry, I'm still not quite following. I'm talking about a situation like the following (please forgive my horrible mockup): ![mockup2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3870410/204114944-a6c87541-9254-4b1f-bba6-9e980792c2bb.png) Here there's a third level reply: Dee thanks Alice...