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As others have said, it is not allowed to post links with tweets to any Mastodon instance (see https://sigmoid.social/@thegradient/109521197175376332 for a screenshot)


Is there a nitter equivalent for Mastodon? Something that allows a link to be viewed without Javascript?


I didn't realize Mastodon only worked with JavaScript enabled. That sucks. I like Mastodon a lot, but this decision feels hostile.

Edit: Seems like they don't plan to change it either: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6186


You can get an RSS feed for any account by appending .rss to the URL, i.e. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon.rss

Not sure if that helps


Aside from alternative web clients like https://brutaldon.org, CLI ones, desktop ones etc. It has an open API, see https://joinmastodon.org/apps for an incomplete list.


Yeah, that actually works pretty well! Thanks!


Forgot about that, that's awesome!


> this decision feels hostile.

No, an uncompensated developer doing something that's easier for them is not hostility.


That's fair. Mastodon seemed like a pretty mature platform, so I guess I was just surprised. Considering that 1) the majority of the modern web doesn't work properly without JS, and 2) Mastodon is designed with third-party clients in mind, it's not a big issue I admit.





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