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Nice! Just to add: You need to be on the original URL, so A-instance.com/@B-user@B-instance.com.rss won't work, it must be B-instance.com/@B-user.rss
by riidom 3y ago
Nice!
Just to add: You need to be on the original URL, so A-instance.com/@B-user@B-instance.com.rss won't work, it must be B-instance.com/@B-user.rss
- distract8901 3y agoFun fact! Your local instance creates a shadow account for remote users, which has a unique ID and a copy of the profile data, but is otherwise empty. I haven't seen this documented anywhere and it cost me about a day of effort when I was building a mastodon bot. If you naively try to fetch content from a remote user replying to a post, you won't find anything. You have to hit the remote instance's search API and pass their profile name in. Which is frankly insane.