Unqualified @user mentions from other instances are not resolved properly

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GTK-based Mastodon client for Linux

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Unqualified @user mentions from other instances are not resolved properly #122

Closed 17dec closed 4 years ago

17dec commented 5 years ago

E.g. when someone on mastodon.social toots @user is awesome (@user without the domain) and you are reading the toot from mastodon.technology, the @user is resolved as if it refers to @user@mastodon.techonology, resulting in a "User not found" error, It should instead refer to the instance where the toot originated from (i.e. @user@mastodon.social).

bleakgrey commented 5 years ago

Mentions are automatically resolved and turned into links by Mastodon, Tootle only displays them. I'm not sure I want to write custom logic to circumvent this behavior as it seems a bit out of the scope.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that all clients are prone to this behavior.

17dec commented 5 years ago

Hmm, I wasn't aware that Mastodon was responsible for resolving the links. Oddly enough I don't have this problem with the Mastodon web UI or with Subway Tooter.

I agree though that if it's Mastodon doing the resolving, then this isn't a problem that Tootle ought to solve.

bleakgrey commented 4 years ago

Closing this for now, might reopen later