dear mastodon users please stop fucking posting https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/status/123457890 links

[vyr@princess.industries]

dear mastodon users please stop fucking posting https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/status/123457890 links

AP using https URLs was a mistake

[lunaphied@tech.lgbt]

@vyr it's so much worse because there's no canonical way to retrieve a post from a URL whatsoever. You have to submit a search request and then AP magic has to happen and like frequently this just doesn't work. I'm still trying to track down a related Feditext bug's cause

[erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net]

@Lunaphied @vyr stares blankly people complain about AP C2S missing features (… Because for many of them you’re expected to have a smart client, or for others because they could just be extensions) but this is one it unambiguously has

[lunaphied@tech.lgbt]

@erincandescent @vyr wait what? I scoured the spec for a way to do this sanely, but if you need authenticated fetch afaik it has to be S2S

[erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net]

@Lunaphied @vyr proxyURL in your users C2S metadata