Gregory's Serverso you know how you can copy a url to a post to load it to your local view by searching its url inside of mastodon: why is there not a way to go to a profile and click load most recent 100 posts locally?
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@liaizon I know what you mean, and when you try to follow on another instance, it doesn’t know who I am and makes me type out the name + domain correctly. I’m not sure what, but it’d be nice if something could just hook in there and take me to my instance. @liaizon im not sure there's an activitypub way of querying messages from a user? messages find their way to u rather than being asked for specifically and the link gives a direct reference to a message basically i dont think AP provides a way to get posts beyond them being sent to u through follows n boosts or a direct reference.  @liaizon yeah and the messaging around this flow is also odd and confusing. even on masto web the link for 'go look at their home instance profile' is at the bottom of their feed. so if they have *some* posts loaded on your instance, it shoves the link down and you might assume what you're seeing is everything. really strange middle ground edge case thing that happens because there's no back fill possible Nope. Anybody [edit: that is logged in] can do it. But you do have to know the url of a message collection of some kind and these are only rarely surfaced in the UI.
@mike I tried searching https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/outbox from my Streams account I have on https://webs.node9.org/ and get a 504 Gateway Time-out every time. maybe this isn't the url you mean? Found an issue with collection processing and pushed a fix. I also added the ability to see these conversations locally from the remote profile viewer but had to disable it because it can take a few minutes to load a bunch of remote conversations and all the actors involved. The profile viewer page is just spinning as this happens - which isn't a great usage experience. That needs to be done in the background to be viable. I can do that but not on such a lovely winter day. Have fun at fedicamp.
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if I get a new follow on my single user instance from an instance I haven't interacted with it will show none of the posts of the user. I have to load the account in a external web browser to even see who the person is. this is a feature we need to work on making better its so annoying. and I havent seen any #fediverse project implementation of this yet even on zap zot friendica based fedi software