{"id":465,"date":"2022-11-10T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2022-11-16T23:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T03:43:26","slug":"mastodon-and-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon and HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Request to Mastodon instance operators: Provide a read-only anonymous HTML-only mode.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update 2022-11-17: Mastodon supports RSS; try just tacking “.rss” onto the end of a Mastodon URL.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem to work for comment threads, but it does work for main threads. For example<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

M-x gnus ENTER G R https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@markmccaughrean.rss ENTER<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
will create a Gnus group containing the author’s Mastodon posts.\u00a0 This is a nice workaround, though I do still hope logged-out HTML-only browsing will be possible again, post 4.x.\u00a0 Thanks to the helpful people on the #mastodon IRC channel for the above suggestion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been following some Mastodon instances for several months.  In Emacs, I type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ESCAPE x eww ENTER https:\/\/mastodon.ar.al\/@aral ENTER<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
and, without any authentication requirement, I’m greeted with a read-only HTML view of the instance, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Example
Example toot in Mastodon v3.5.3 HTML-only mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This week I tried another instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ESCAPE x eww ENTER https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@markmccaughrean ENTER<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
and I am blocked by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Mastodon
Mastodon v4.0.0rc1 “please enable JavaScript” message.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Is this a new default?  I was surprised that read-only anonymous HTML-only mode (ala Twitter classic and Nitter) is not supported by all Mastodon instances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Request to Mastodon instance operators: Provide a read-only anonymous HTML-only mode. Update 2022-11-17: Mastodon supports RSS; try just tacking “.rss” onto the end of a Mastodon URL.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem to work for comment threads, but it does work for main threads. For example will create a Gnus group containing the author’s Mastodon posts.\u00a0 This … <\/p>\n
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