Should Fediverse Web apps show remote content to unauthenticated users?
For example, you point your browser at a.example. You are not logged in.
You navigate to a list of a local user's followers at a.example/user1/followers .
If you click on a profile in that list, it loads a.example/remote/user2@b.example , a profile page for a remote user.
If you click on an image posted by that remote user, it loads a.example/remote/b.example/image/33 , showing the remote image and all comments on it.
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Edited 6d ago
Thanks to everyone who replied! I am a "yes, but...".
Yes, but you should clearly identify it as remote content or a remote profile.
People on here freak out sometimes when they see remote profiles or remote content on a Fediverse-enabled server. They say it has "shadow profiles" or "scraped content."
Clearly identifying that it comes from the Fediverse can help with this a lot.
@evan I know you may have seen my message and couldn’t reply, and I understand. Please allow me to ask one gentle question. My mother and I live in a tent in Gaza. She is ninety years old, blind, and immobile. She suffered a stroke and urgently needs open-heart surgery. Her fragile body is covered in painful sores because we have no diapers. I watch her suffer every day, unable to ease her pain. It breaks my heart. Are the cases you choose to support more difficult than my mother’s? 💔
@evan Dear Evangelo,
Thank you from my heart for your generous donation. My mother was very happy when I told her about your kindness. Tomorrow I will buy her diapers because of you.
She is fasting these days, and she will pray for you every day during Ramadan, mentioning your name in her prayers.
May God bless and protect you always. 🤍
