If you're frustrated about remote Fediverse profiles looking blank even though they're not blank, I've made a feature request about this on the Mastodon Github:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33978
TL:DR - If a remote profile is blank or outdated, a user could click a button to load the 5 latest posts.
The Masto devs have previously been concerned that backfilling would overwhelm servers, but 5 posts on request wouldn't seem to be too bad?
Any thoughts appreciated 🙂
#Backfilling #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33978
TL:DR - If a remote profile is blank or outdated, a user could click a button to load the 5 latest posts.
The Masto devs have previously been concerned that backfilling would overwhelm servers, but 5 posts on request wouldn't seem to be too bad?
Any thoughts appreciated 🙂
#Backfilling #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin
Button on blank/outdated remote profiles to fetch 5 latest posts · Issue #33978 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch If you browse a remote profile, and if it's blank or only has posts over 12 months old, there would be a button at the top of the remote profile's timeline labelled "This profile may be out o...GitHub
