speaking of #mastodon does anyone understand the stupid logged out remote profile redirect scare screen?
if you click a remote profile on an instance you see the instance's cache of that profile. but if you open that same url in a new window you get redirected to the remote instance with a terrible "are you sure you trust this link" screen. i have been searching for discussions in the github issues about this but cant seem to find the right search term, i want to know WHY someone did this
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2026-05-02 07:25:50 UTC
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